moraller

plural morallers · alternative moraler

1. nonce wordobsoleteA moralizer.

   Come, you are too severe a moraler:

   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, [Act II, scene iii]

alternative moraler

1. archaiccomparativehumorouscomparative form of moral: more moral

   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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   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 […]

   1646, William Fenner, Christs Alarm to Drowsie Saints, London: John Rothwell, page 220

   Why what’s innocenter or moraller than a Punch and Judy?

   1867, George Manville Fenn, “The Decline of the Drama”, in Original Penny Readings, London: Routledge, page 213