Crossword clues for purist
purist
- Stickler, of a sort
- Stickler for perfection
- One resistant to change
- Stir up (anag) — pedant
- Stickler for details
- Punctilious professor, e.g
- Person who does not compromise their tastes
- Oversolicitous one
- One who does things by the book
- One unlikely to experiment
- One insistent on perfection
- Not one to try new ideas
- Hidebound grammarian
- Finicky grammarian
- Stickler for correctness
- Noncompromiser
- Precisionist
- Uncompromising sort
- One unlikely to compromise
- Type not susceptible to compromise
- Someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
- Strict traditionalist
- Stickler re diction, etc.
- Rigid grammarian
- Verbal pedant
- Strict grammarian
- Strict observer
- Strict adherent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purist \Pur"ist\, n. [Cf. F. puriste.]
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One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist.
--Macaulay. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.
--M. Stuart.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stickler for purity," 1706, from pure + -ist; on model of French puriste (1580s), originally in reference to speech.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to purism n. An advocate of purism
WordNet
n. someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
Wikipedia
A purist is one who desires that an item remain true to its essence and free from adulterating or diluting influences. The term may be used in almost any field, and can be applied either to the self or to others. Use of the term may be either pejorative or complimentary, depending on the context. Because the appellation depends on subjective notions of what is "pure" as opposed to "adulterating" as applied to any particular item, conflict can arise both as to whether a person so labeled is actually a purist and as to whether that is desirable.
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the term dates from 1706 and is defined as "a person who adheres strictly and often excessively to a tradition", especially "one preoccupied with the purity of a language and its protection from the use of foreign or altered forms."
Usage examples of "purist".
Lady Anjelica, who had directed engagements against mortal Purist hunters and Tribe renegades.
And kicking us off your crew will make you look an awful lot like a Purist to an awful lot of people.
One of her subordinates had leaked that report to the aide of another, less prominent Purist months ago.
The document is plenty to drive everyone cool or lukewarm to us into the Purist camp, and to make our friends look for a good place to hide.
The fact that the Purist used a knife meant that the grudge was very personal.
When the Purist thought it was safe to move, Alec followed him up the back stairway, a shadow one step behind his enemy.
One was the infamous Purist Shun List, a recitation of alien influences to be purged from day-to-day human living.
Some of them were wearing pendants made of human bone shards, a Purist emblem.
It was their top story the next day, morphed in alternation with a shot of the Purist ringleaders, heads covered by police coats, marching to the paddy wagons.
I especially work in forced me to abandon that purist stance a long time ago.
She saw herself as a kind of Joan of Arc, a purist who would lay down her life for her ideals.
The Tribes are the reason that the Purists still hunt all vampires, and that even the more reasonable hunters will never completely trust the Clans or the Families.
As long as the Purists exist, vampires can never completely trust mortals.
Style will always convince cinematic purists that the surfaces they admire contain depth, and that clear shortcomings are really subtle virtues in disguise.
Remember, the more you look like Purists, the less reason people will have to believe your side of the story.