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单词 moraller
释义

moraller

English

Alternative forms

  • moraler

Etymology

moral + -er

Noun

moraller (plural morallers)

  1. (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:

Adjective

moraller

  1. (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.
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