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purism

[ UK /pjˈɔːɹɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)
    linguistic purisms

How To Use purism In A Sentence

  • This attack states, in effect, that Hiatt's purism is unsustainable in the real world, and that government contracts do not automatically lead to corruption of academic integrity.
  • Such purism and moral fervor seem inimitable for art writing today.
  • On the theoretic level, the application of moral purism as weapon to make unlimited criticism to terrorism is the only route thoroughly solving ethical problem of terrorism.
  • Hugh's rejection of what he has recognized puts the burden on us in the audience to turn from the past to the future, from linguistic purism to linguistic ecumenism, and from physical force to imaginative growth.
  • I work out my sexual frustration by going to the utmost extreme in Icelandic purism. Languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC.
  • Both sides of the partisan divide have their little problem with purism.
  • Purism, however, also has its barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses.
  • Art facilities are slashed and art market is extreme fatigue, as well as a large number of galleries in collapse. Art purism has been washed by reality becoming too difficult to erect.
  • This ‘Minister of Political Correctness’ is more interested in cultural sensitivity and environmental purism, than the protection of public safety in that area.
  • Owen later mirrors his father's retreat into the classical past by converting to Irish language purism, signalled by his decision to restore the seventh-century name of the Murren instead of Anglicizing it.
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