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precisian

noun
/pɹɪˈsɪ.ʒən/UK

Etymology

From precise + -ian.

  1. derived from praecīsus
  2. derived from précis
  3. suffixed as precisian — “precise + ian”

Definitions

  1. A religious purist

    A religious purist; a Puritan.

  2. Someone who strictly observes the rules

    Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler.

    • Her speech was hardly more grating upon him, precisian though he was, than the careless, untutored lapses of a child might have been; all the senses of comparison as readily ignored them.
    • “A sister of mine will be there,” explained the one, knowing the Duke to be a precisian.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA