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, [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^[1], London: John Rothwell, page 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^[2], London: Routledge, page 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),^[3]

     […] 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.