Fustianist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pompous writer. archaic

    "and in their choice preferring the gay rankneſs of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any modern Suſtianiſt, before the native Latiniſms of Cicero."

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"and in their choice preferring the gay rankneſs of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any modern Suſtianiſt, before the native Latiniſms of Cicero."

Etymology

From fustian + -ist.

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