单词 | moralizer |
释义 | moralizern. 1. A person who moralizes; (now) esp. a person given to making moral judgements. ΘΚΠ society > morality > [noun] > one who moralizer1592 morallera1616 blue skin1790 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. Ev I thought it a made matter of some malitious moralizers against him. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will Prol. sig. B2 Moralizers, you that wrest a neuer meant meaning, out of euery thing, applying all things to the present time, keepe your attention for the common Stage. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xvii. 120 But what a Moralizer am I! 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 53 There sometimes occurs an apparent Play on words, which not only to the Moralizer, but even to the philosophical Etymologist, appears more than a mere Play. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. xvi. 248 The old man looks eastward, and (for he is a moralizer) frames a simile. 1886 19th Cent. Oct. 541 The newspaper moralisers speak off-handedly of the skilled workman earning his two or three pounds a week. 1927 H. W. Fowler in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXVI. 193 And let me here accept my title word by word: I am a moralizer because I wish morals to be drawn [etc.]. 1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch ix. 91 I hate moralizers... They sit on the sidelines and carp. 1992 New Republic 18 May 5/3 Calling the poor undeserving may make moralizers feel good, but it does absolutely nothing to reduce poverty. 2. An agent or means of moralization. rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [noun] > improvement in moral condition > that which moralizer1840 1840 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) IV. xi. 206 The Gospel..is the most powerful and efficient of all moralizers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592 |
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