Purism

"Purism" in a Sentence (4 examples)

I am a staunch supporter of linguistic purism.

Linguistic purism is unreasonable.

Purism is pretentious.

Linguistic purism is a silly idea; compounding, conversion, and derivation can only take you so far.

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