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purist

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.

Pronunciation

Adjective

purist (comparative more purist, superlative most purist)

  1. Of or pertaining to purism.
    Synonym: puristic
    • 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:
      He was the first to play for money, a practice which got him ousted from the purist U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.

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Noun

purist (plural purists)

  1. An advocate of purism.
    • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
      One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste.

Noun

purist c (singular definite puristen, plural indefinite purister)

  1. purist

Declension

More information common gender, singular ...

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References

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste.

Pronunciation

Noun

purist m (plural puristen)

  1. purist

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: puris

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur + -ist.

Noun

purist m (plural puriști)

  1. purist

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From purìzam.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǔrist/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧rist

Noun

pùrist m anim (Cyrillic spelling пу̀рист)

  1. purist

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

References

  • purist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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