moraller
English
Alternative forms
- moraler
Etymology
moral + -er
Noun
moraller (plural morallers)
- (obsolete, nonce word) A moralizer.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Come, you are too severe a moraler:
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Adjective
moraller
- (archaic, humorous) comparative form of moral: more moral
- 1646, William Fenner, Christs Alarm to Drowsie Saints, London: John Rothwell, p. 220,
- For as it was with the Moraller Heathen they did the things contained in the Law, yet they were dead; so a people may doe the things contained in the Gospell too, and yet be dead […]
- 1867, George Manville Fenn, “The Decline of the Drama” in Original Penny Readings, London: Routledge, p. 213,
- Why what’s innocenter or moraller than a Punch and Judy?
- 1933, Helen de Guerry Simpson, The Woman on the Beast, Book II, France, 1789, (i),
- […] we betake ourselves nightly to the Opera or Coliseum, and daily to the Palais Royal, where we walk under the trees, at all the moraller hours.
- 1646, William Fenner, Christs Alarm to Drowsie Saints, London: John Rothwell, p. 220,