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UK
/pjˈɔːɹɪst/
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[ US /ˈpjʊɹɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈpjʊɹɪst/ ]
NOUN
- someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
How To Use purist In A Sentence
- Stripped naked of additives and processes, save a pinch of stabilising sulphur dioxide for all but the purists, the finished product is surprising and fractious. Times, Sunday Times
- It has incurred the displeasure of purists. Times, Sunday Times
- The most powerful impulse of the time can be summed up as neoclassicism, a reversion to the purist attempts of the Renaissance to reproduce classical models.
- Purists value keyboard-only emoticons, while younger generations embrace an advanced set of icons - the emoji.
- Chai's dish of choice is far from traditional, but he insists that purists are missing out.
- The new edition of the dictionary carries 7000 additions to the language, which purists say is under threat.
- It's ski racing's biggest biennial bonanza, a snow-sport event for Alpine purists, and this year it's coming to Italy.
- As a purist in his own right, Sparky has his own thoughts on what pool would encompass if he had his druthers.
- They loved him none the more, of course, and spun, prawned, and wormed as before, honestly envying just a little the purist whose fly undoubtedly often justified his claims. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
- I apologise to any purists in case the following suggestion is seen as something of a sacrilege, but can I ask you to help us in calling all Yorkshire poets, rhymesters, bards, balladeers and singers to help us save our pub?