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PURISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)
Example:
linguistic purisms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("purism" is a kind of...):
insistence; insisting (continual and persistent demands)
Derivation:
purist (someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words))
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