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Etymology

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From moral +‎ -er.

Noun

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moraller (plural morallers)

  1. (obsolete, nonce word) A moralizer.

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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.