purist means of or pertaining to purism. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
purist is pronounced /ˈpjʊəɹɪst/.
Why “purist” is a great word
PURIST — [Noun] A person who insists on absolute adherence to traditional rules or structures, especially regarding linguistic or artistic purity. From the English pure (meaning "unmixed, free from faults") + the agent suffix -ist, on the model of French puriste (first attested in French in the 1580s). First attested in English in 1706. Unlike a pedant, who brandishes minor rules with ostentation, or a traditionalist, who broadly upholds established customs, a purist is driven by a zealous mission to scour away all perceived corruption to restore an idealized original. It is the grammarian who winces at a split infinitive as at a physical blow, the oenophile for whom a single ice cube is an act of vandalism, and the archivist who handles a manuscript only with white cotton gloves—a solitary guard at the gate of a perfection that never truly was.
Etymology
Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.
adj
- 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.”
noun
- 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.”