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formalists
n. (plural of formalist English)
Usage examples of "formalists".
Thee that I am not as other men are, spiritually proud, formalists, hypocrites, or even as this Pharisee.
A first-class journal does not really suffer because two or three formalists or two or three bigots among its thousands of subscribers give it up for six weeks in a pet of ill-temper--and then take it on again.
In the Hill-top Novels, I hope to reverse all that--to say my say in my own way, representing the world as it appears to me, not as editors and formalists would like me to represent it.