MORALIST

martinet, disciplinarian, moralist

(noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

moralist

(noun) a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

moralist (plural moralists)

(pejorative) One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.

(obsolete) A teacher of morals.

Anagrams

• trisomal

Source: Wiktionary

Mor"al*ist, n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition