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purist
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊəɹɪst/, /ˈpjɔːɹɪst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊɹ.ɪst/, /ˈpjɝ.ɪst/
- Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪst, -ɔːɹɪst, -ɜːɹɪst
- Hyphenation: pur‧ist
Adjective
purist (comparative more purist, superlative most purist)
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
pertaining to purism
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Noun
purist (plural purists)
- 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.
Translations
advocate of purism
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Danish
Etymology
Noun
purist c (singular definite puristen, plural indefinite purister)
Declension
See also
References
- “purist” in Den Danske Ordbog
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
purist m (plural puristen)
Derived terms
- taalpurist
- puristisch
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: puris
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur + -ist.
Noun
purist m (plural puriști)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From purìzam.
Pronunciation
Noun
pùrist m anim (Cyrillic spelling пу̀рист)
Declension
References
- “purist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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