purist
adj/ˈpjʊəɹɪst/UK/ˈpjʊɹ.ɪst/US
Etymology
Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.
- borrowed from puriste
Definitions
Of or pertaining to purism.
- He was the first to play for money, a practice which got him ousted from the purist U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.
An advocate of purism.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for purist. 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