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purism
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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.
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, . . . ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Purism , referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918–1925 that influenced French painting and architecture. Purism was led by Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) . Ozenfant and Le Corbusier created a variation ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things, especially of language 2 (context countable English) An example of purist language etc
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.