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What is a moralist?

What is a moralist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pejorative) One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.
  2. (obsolete) A teacher of morals.
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The balance of power never suited the more universalistic, moralist spirit of the late twentieth century.
The media moralist and TV frontman has a long track record of preaching about the evils of child abuse and individual irresponsibility.
This is as dutiful and strong-willed a creed as any Victorian moralist could hope for.
He was not simply a writer, but in his later decades a moralist and philosopher who influenced, among others, Gandhi.
She is neither a moralist nor a tendentiously political artist, although her work is informed by an unmistakably feminist sensibility.
One problem with absolutism about honesty is that it drives the moralist into a kind of dishonesty of her own.

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