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purist
noun as in perfectionist
Weak matches
Example Sentences
So how as a purist can you really sit at the table with them?
It was like, he was the anti-Christ and we came from a snobby, purist direction.
After all, radically purist ideologies need to be sheltered from the vagaries of the world, and they can be expensive to maintain.
Despite a history of savvy political tactics, he's been painted as a progressive purist.
He's a conservative, but not a purist; he's a conviction politician—and a pragmatist too.
He died at the age of forty, the greatest literary purist the country had yet produced.
Is not the age of Nicaea a good time for precedents, O purist in matters ecclesiastical?
The above-quoted writer in the New York Press is a purist in vocabulary, no less than in grammar.
It has been said that on occasion his work contained passages a purist would not have passed.
She is not a bit of a purist and thinks more of a good thought forcefully put than of a slip in the way of a split infinitive.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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