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Purism

noun
1.
Scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language).





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"Purism" Quotes from Famous Books



... defended on strict ethical principles, yet they have been a leavening and widening influence. Who would wish to expel from churches the stories of Adam and Eve, of Joseph and David, on grounds of ethical purism? The life of the many is not so highly decorated that we should wish to expel from it ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various


Words linked to "Purism" :   insisting, purist, insistence


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