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purist

[pyoor-ist]

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noun

a person who advocates the strictest application of the principles or standards in any field, or who insists on purity in language, style, etc..
When making hip-hop he began as a purist, putting most of the focus on solid lyrics and less on working with the music and production.
Fine Arts.��Often Purist a practitioner of purism, an early 20th-century style of art characterized by the use of simple geometric forms and images evoking manufactured objects.
The Purists saw their painting as the next step in the evolution of modern art after Cubism, which they found too decorative.

adjective

relating to or being a purist.
The purist view of theater design is that if there is a column or pillar anywhere, there is a problem.

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Other Word Forms

puristic adjective
puristical adjective
puristically adverb
hyperpurist noun
nonpuristic adjective
unpuristic adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of purist¹

First recorded in 1695–1705; from French puriste, equivalent to pur(e) ( def. ) + -ist ( def. )

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While the field toiled on a day for golfing purists, Burns proved Oakmont could be tamed by making a mockery of its grisly challenge.

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“I tend to be sort of a purist, which is that consumers don’t care about AI. They care about problems being solved,” LaFontaine said.

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It goes without saying that his new adaptation of “Hamlet,” which had its premiere Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum, isn’t for purists.

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The Savannah Bananas embrace an unusual version of baseball that might offend purists but draws plenty of fans.

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You know, you could call him a libertarian; he was very influential in the free market, purist movement that rose with Ronald Reagan over the course of the 1970s and 1980s.

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purism Puritan

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