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Pur"ist, n. [Cf. F. puriste.]
1.
One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist. Macaulay.
2.
One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.
M. Stuart.
© Webster 1913.
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