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Early 20th-century art movement
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Purism (architecture) redirects here. For another form of purism in architecture, see Purism (arts) Purism is an initial phase of Renaissance architecture in Spain , which took place between 1530 and 1560, after to Isabelline Gothic and prior to the Herrerian ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purism \Pur"ism\, n. [Cf. F. purisme.] Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. ``His political purism.'' --De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, of language, from French purisme (see purist + -ism ). As a movement in art from 1921.
Usage examples of purism.
The simplicity and purism of the tea-room resulted from emulation of the Zen monastery.
It is the icy purism of the sword-soul before which Shinto-Japan prostrates herself even to-day.
But the spirit of purism has so perverted the human mind that it has lost the power to appreciate the beauty of nudity, forcing us to hide the natural form under the plea of chastity.
In equally stupid manner purism seeks to check the terrible scourge of its own creation--venereal diseases.
Mackintosh applauds such purism, though he suspects that the hallstand is a church screen which has come down in the world.
His fate was perhaps as sad as well might be, and as foul a blot to the purism of these very pure times in which we live.
Most of these are rejected by the purism of the literary language, which, however, has been compelled to borrow the phraseology of modern civilization from the Russian, French and other European languages.
One day he perceived that Phemie Teinturiere had one knee better shaped than the other, and as his was an austere purism as regards plastics, he sent Phemie about her business, giving her as a souvenir the cane with which he had addressed such frequent remarks to her.
Mackintosh applauds such purism, though he suspects that the hallstand is a church screen which has come down in the world.