purism

purist | American Dictionary

purist
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpjʊr·ɪst/
a person who believes that it is important to speak, write, or do things in a correct or traditional way:
Some purists complain that the buildings are not being accurately restored.

Examples of purist

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Many of us, like the purists, look back to earlier, simpler times when children did not have to cope with modern contradictions.
On the other hand, purists felt that such commercialization tainted the true pursuit of natural philosophy.
It is not so much the authentic past of items that is of interest to purists as it is the reception in a present.
I then consider current debates among curators and distinguish between two main exhibition strategies, one pragmatist, the other purist.
This conclusion may not satisfy the purist, and it does not mean that welfare comparisons can readily be made on a person-to-person basis.
Exhibits that conform to a purist perspective often have to deal with a seldom openly admitted economic problem.
Or, from the purist point of view, that everyone should seek for and conform to when found.
From a 'purist's' perspective sustainability is simply that which can be sustained entirely from within the building's associated plot.
The purists demand that every feature in the language be consistent with the basic paradigm.
Table 2 gives an overview of the most important differences between the pragmatist and purist perspectives.
A second strand of recent museology is called here 'purist'.
However, for a purist or a pedagogue it is a nightmare.
Purist discourse is a ridiculous fantasy, but imagined origins, genealogies, and bloodlines are willfully and pridefully constructed in defiance of hegemonic official discourse.
Its excessive use in advertising and in the press is often criticized, not only by purists but also by descriptive linguists.
Here, as in so many usages, it is becoming so universal in its 'incorrect' form that only purists will object.
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