purism
noun
strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
Example Sentences
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He accused Mr. Venturi’s critics of “preoccupation with a rather prissily puristic aesthetic.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2018
“The problem is that the iPad’s design is already pretty puristic, so any other tablet will necessarily remind you of that,” Ehmann said in an interview.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 16, 2011
In keeping with this idealized conception of art, Muzio asserts that everything obscene or immoral must be excluded from poetry; and this puristic notion of art is everywhere emphasized in Renaissance criticism.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
A little later, in Daniello, we find similar puristic tendencies.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
The antithetic balance and word-jingle, with an exquisite, puristic, precise, and delicate lisp, as of one tasting the flavour of his words throughout.
From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Henry Graham Dakyns
