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Purist   /pjˈʊrɪst/   Listen
Purist

noun
1.
Someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words).





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"Purist" Quotes from Famous Books



... been long in office I was brought into contact with one of its members, Mr. W.E. Baxter, the Secretary to the Admiralty. Mr. Baxter was a great reformer and a financial purist. When he went to the Admiralty he found extravagance and confusion, not to speak of corruption, pervading all the departments connected with the provision of materiel for the Fleet. He set to work at once, with the vigour of the new broom, to cleanse the ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.
... you to do anything you don't want to. But you picked the field of sociology to work in. Now I don't see why you have to act such a purist that it takes months to find a research project for your degree. Pick something—anything!—I don't care what it is. But if you don't get a degree and an appointment out of the next session I don't think we'll ...
— Cubs of the Wolf • Raymond F. Jones


Words linked to "Purist" :   pedant, scholastic, purism, bookworm


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