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Purism  n.  Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." "The English language, however,... had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter."






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"Purism" Quotes from Famous Books



... people who use obsolete and uncommon words in their lectures. One of these produced a bit of Attic purism in answer to some question he had put. 'My dear sir,' he said, 'the date of my question is to-day; that of your answer is ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata



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