Pur"ism (?), n. [Cf. F. purisme.]
Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.
"His political
purism."
De Quincey.
The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter.
Craik.
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