Purist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purist \Pur"ist\, n. [Cf. F. puriste.]
     1. One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the
        choice of language.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a


              scrupulosity unknown to any purist.   --Macaulay.
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     2. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in
        pure Greek. --M. Stuart.
        [1913 Webster] Puristic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  purist
       n : someone who insists on great precision and correctness
           (especially in the use of words)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "purist":
     Pharisee, ass, bigot, bitter-ender, bluestocking, bullethead,
     classicist, conservative, die-hard, diehard, dogmatist, donkey,
     fanatic, formalist, hardnose, intransigeant, intransigent,
     last-ditcher, maverick, mule, pedant, perverse fool, pighead,
     plain stylist, positivist, precieuse, precieux, precisian,
     precisionist, puritan, standpat, standpatter, stickler,
     stuffed shirt, traditionalist