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n. Strict observance of or insistence on traditional correctness, especially of language: "By purism is to be understood a needless and irritating insistence on purity or correctness of speech” ( H.W. Fowler).

n. An example of purism.

n. An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things, especially of language

n. An example of purist language etc

n. Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.

n. The exclusion of admixture of any kind; the affectation of rigid purity, as in language, style, etc.; specifically, excessive nicety as to the choice of words.

n. scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)

"I work out my sexual frustration by going to the utmost extreme in Icelandic purism."

insistence    insisting   

pragmatists    mid-1990s    elision    heterodoxy    verbosity    prolixity    nonconformity    high priest    inculcation    teleology