purism
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Purism has always been an exception, delighted borrowing the rule.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2011
He did Purism too, further sanitizing the cleaned-up version of Cubism espoused by Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2010
To spread their new credo of Purism, Jeanneret and Ozenfant started the magazine L'Esprit nouveau.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1950 he had changed course, abandoning Purism, as he called it, for something more robust and sculptural.
From Time Magazine Archive
Purism, pūr′izm, n. exclusion of mixture of any kind: pure or immaculate conduct or style: the doctrine of a purist: great nicety or care in the use of words.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
