moralizer
(ˈmɒrəlaɪzə(r))
[f. moralize v. + -er1.]
One who or something which moralizes.
1. One who is given to making moral reflections.
| 1600 Nashe Summer's Last Will Prol. B 2 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. 1742 Richardson Pamela IV. 120 But what a Moraliser am I! 1825 Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 26 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 Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) I. xvi. 248 The old man looks eastward, and (for he is a moralizer) frames a simile. |
2. A moralizing agent.
| 1840 Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1851) IV. xi. 206 The Gospel..is the most powerful and efficient of all moralizers. |