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PURIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("purist" is a kind of...):
bookworm; pedant; scholastic (a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit)
Derivation:
purism (scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language))
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