Prescriptivist

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

  prescriptivist \pre*scrip"tiv*ist\, n.
     A person who believes that acceptable practices should be
     prescribed by an authority rather than be determined by the
     usage of the general public; especially, a supporter of
     prescriptive[2] rules of grammar; -- also used attributively,
     as prescriptivist grammar.


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