\Mor"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. moraliste.]
1. 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. --Addison.
2. 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.
         The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the
         Christian) of God himself.            --Hammond.