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Purism

noun

Scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language).

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"Purism" Quotes from Famous Books

... our predecessors; but do not let us be carried away by our love for archaeology and attempt to make our Queen Anne houses of to-day simply a reflex of those of the early eighteenth century. If we attempt such purism we must fail signally as constructors and as artists. Architecture, to be a living art, must press forward and keep pace with the advance of civilization, combining and utilizing all the varied resources at its command, and aiming to meet all the public ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various

... (they are attached to all his plays) are indeed very interesting from the light they throw on the character of the author, as well as on the ideas and fashions of his age. In all of them there is a certain hard and acrid purism that cloaks in modest phrases an immense contempt for all that lies beyond the writer's own canons of taste. In hac est pura oratio, a phrase of the prologue to The Self-Tormentor, is the implied burden of them all. He is a sort of Literary Robespierre; one seems to catch ...

— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail

Words linked to "Purism" : insisting, purist, insistence