Definitionn. someone who insists on great precision and correctness
Last update: June 30, 2015
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He is a well known purist for arts. [noun]
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By this time (103 B.C.) it was clear that the Hasmonaeans were - from the point of view of a purist - practically indistinguishable from the Hellenizers whom Judas had opposed so keenly, except that they did not abandon the formal observances of Judaism, and even enforced them upon foreigners. [noun]
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Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigotted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. [noun]
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He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even to chimaeras," so his friends said. [noun]
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It is your melodramatist and not your Aristotelian purist that knows what he's talking about when he writes a play. [Please select]
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When you attempt English you have a beastly way of working up to climatic prepositions which are offensive to the ear of a purist. [Please select]
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"Red herrings," retorted Socrates; and there was a great laugh at the expense of the purist, in which even Hamlet, who had grown more and more melancholy and morbid since the abduction of Ophelia, joined. [Please select]
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