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Purism  n.  Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." "The English language, however,... had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Purism" Quotes from Famous Books



... perceived by the senses. But it does not follow from this that he who thinks cannot return out of the thinking activity and carry it with him into the sphere of Conception and Perception. The true thinking activity deprives itself of no content. The abstraction affecting a logical purism which looks down upon Conception and Perception as forms of intelligence quite inferior to itself, is a pseudo-thinking, a morbid and scholastic error. Education will be the better on its guard against ...
— Pedagogics as a System • Karl Rosenkranz

... the means, and improved instruments, for executing his purposes, he broke out into open rebellion; and, though hostile to the principatus, or personal supremacy of one man, he did not feel his republican purism at all wounded by the style and title of Imperator,— that being a military term, and a mere titular honor, which had co-existed with the severest forms of republicanism. Imperator, then, he was saluted and proclaimed; and doubtless the writer of the warning ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey



Words linked to "Purism" :   insistence, purist, insisting



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