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Webster 1913 Edition
Purism
Pur′ism
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
purisme
.] Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.
“His political purism.” De Quincey.
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. Craik.