purist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)

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

Come and inspect us, unless you're a purist about your Scott! — Robert Elsmere, Humphry, Mrs. Ward
He was scrupulously honourable, and almost a purist in his outlook upon life. — The Zeppelin's Passenger, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
In the seventeenth century a new sect of Purists was formed in Arabia. — India, Its Life and Thought, John P. (John Peter) Jones

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