noun. A teacher or student of morals and moral problems.

noun. One who follows a system of moral principles.

noun. One who is unduly concerned with the morals of others.

noun. One who teaches morals; a writer or lecturer on ethics; one who inculcates moral duties.

noun. One who practises moral as distinguished from religious duties; a merely moral as distinguished from a religious person.

noun. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.

noun. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.

noun. One who drives all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.

noun. A teacher of morals.

noun. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

noun. a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems

"The moralist is the writer who has a "moral design" on literature -- who sees it as an forum for moral discourse more than as an aesthetic form -- or who wishes to create a moral "design" in works of fiction or poetry in the guise of, or in substitution for, aesthetic design."

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