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purist

/pyoor-ist/US // ˈpyʊər ɪst //

纯粹主义者,纯粹的人,纯洁主义者,纯粹者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a person who advocates the strictest application of the principles or standards in any field, or who insists on purity in language, style, etc.: When making hip-hop he began as a purist, putting most of the focus on solid lyrics and less on working with the music and production.
    • : Often Purist .Fine Arts. a practitioner of purism, an early 20th-century style of art characterized by the use of simple geometric forms and images evoking manufactured objects: The Purists saw their painting as the next step in the evolution of modern art after Cubism, which they found too decorative.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : relating to or being a purist:The purist view of theater design is that if there is a column or pillar anywhere, there is a problem.

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Examples

  • So how as a purist can you really sit at the table with them?

  • It was like, he was the anti-Christ and we came from a snobby, purist direction.

  • After all, radically purist ideologies need to be sheltered from the vagaries of the world, and they can be expensive to maintain.

  • Despite a history of savvy political tactics, he's been painted as a progressive purist.

  • He's a conservative, but not a purist; he's a conviction politician—and a pragmatist too.

  • He died at the age of forty, the greatest literary purist the country had yet produced.

  • Is not the age of Nicaea a good time for precedents, O purist in matters ecclesiastical?

  • The above-quoted writer in the New York Press is a purist in vocabulary, no less than in grammar.

  • It has been said that on occasion his work contained passages a purist would not have passed.

  • She is not a bit of a purist and thinks more of a good thought forcefully put than of a slip in the way of a split infinitive.