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ethicist

[ eth-uh-sist ]

/ ˈɛθ ə sɪst /

noun

a person who specializes in or writes on ethics or who is devoted to ethical principles.

Words nearby ethicist

ethical culture, ethical hacker, ethical investment, ethical relativism, ethical will, ethicist, ethicize, ethics, ethinamate, ethine, ethion

Also e·thi·cian

[e-thish-uh n] /ɛˈθɪʃ ən/.

Origin of ethicist

First recorded in 1890–95; ethic + -ist

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for ethicist

If his Ethicist gig ever winds up feeling too constricting, he can always launch a column called The Sophist.
Forget the Wife Beating—Are You Ready for Some Football?|Steve Almond|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The "ethicist's fallacy" is the source of all absolutism in theory, and all intolerance in practice.
The Philosophy of Spinoza|Baruch de Spinoza
With the purest intention he is much less of an ethicist than Kant.
Julia Ward Howe|Laura E. Richards
And it applies also to what one may, with a great deal of benefit, dub the "ethicist's fallacy."
The Philosophy of Spinoza|Baruch de Spinoza

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