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prescriptivistic

adj

Etymology

From prescriptive + -istic or prescriptivist + -ic.

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

Definitions

  1. Synonym of prescriptivist.

    • Perhaps once more the somewhat prescriptivistic nature of most grammars of the time accounts for the reluctance to regulate language choice suggested by Heath and Mandabach.
    • For a few verbs, continued wavering between past participles is reflected in Fabra’s prescriptivistic Gràmatica catalana (1969).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prescriptivistic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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