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prescriptivist

noun

Etymology

From prescriptive + -ist.

  1. borrowed from praescriptivus — “relating to a legal exception”
  2. suffixed as prescriptivist — “prescriptive + ist”

Definitions

  1. Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional…

    Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

  2. Having a tendency to prescribe.

    • In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.

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