purist

From French puriste, equivalent to pure +‎ -ist.

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purist (comparative more purist, superlative most purist)

1. 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.

purist (plural purists)

1. 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.

• spruit, stir up, tripus, uprist, upstir

Borrowed from French puriste.

• IPA^(key): /pyˈrɪst/

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• Hyphenation: pu‧rist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

purist m (plural puristen)

1. purist

• taalpurist
• puristisch

• purisme

• Afrikaans: puris

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

purist m (plural puriști)

1. purist

• pùrista (Bosnia, Serbia)

From purìzam.

• IPA^(key): /pǔrist/
• Hyphenation: pu‧rist

pùrist m (Cyrillic spelling пу̀рист)

1. purist

• “purist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024