purist

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
purist
    n 1: someone who insists on great precision and correctness
         (especially in the use of words)
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Purist \Pur"ist\, n. [Cf. F. puriste.]
   1. One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the
      choice of language.
      [1913 Webster]

            He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a
            scrupulosity unknown to any purist.   --Macaulay.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in
      pure Greek. --M. Stuart.
      [1913 Webster] Puristic
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "purist":
      Pharisee, ass, bigot, bitter-ender, bluestocking, bullethead,
      classicist, conservative, die-hard, diehard, dogmatist, donkey,
      fanatic, formalist, hardnose, intransigeant, intransigent,
      last-ditcher, maverick, mule, pedant, perverse fool, pighead,
      plain stylist, positivist, precieuse, precieux, precisian,
      precisionist, puritan, standpat, standpatter, stickler,
      stuffed shirt, traditionalist
antiflux / dictionary / purist
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