What's the difference between purism and purist?

Purism


Definition:

  • (n.) Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Centrist appeal may be undercut by history of ideological purism and father’s long and complicated shadow.
  • (2) But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and have no time for institutionalised mythmaking – whether from the authoritarian right or the liberal left.
  • (3) Tea Party favorite for conservative purism on budgets and taxation.

Purist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
  • (n.) One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
  • (2) But there are two problems for Turkey's entry Düm Tek Tek: linguistic purists will be angry that the song is in English except for the title; and some more traditional members of the national juries and televoters will be offended by Turkey's crop-top aesthetic.
  • (3) He frequently used the sounds and rhythms of dubstep – which by 2011 was nearing the peak of its explosive global rise – royally enraging the scene's purists, who were already struggling to cope with "their" sound spilling into the mainstream and picked him as scapegoat.
  • (4) No: people want to see live animals!” The purists will grumble.
  • (5) Quite right too, purists would say: Hinkley Point is already hideously expensive.
  • (6) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
  • (7) And rather than to the purists of Camra, it was to the anything-goes craft brewers of America that many turned for their inspiration: to exuberant beers with exotic ingredients (chilli, honey, chocolate, hemp, mustard, even myrrh), but also to hip design, guerrilla marketing and social media savvy.
  • (8) What might be even less acceptable to purists are the ballpark traditions that have sprung up around Fenway recently.
  • (9) Early celebrating is a serious violation of baseball protocol to some purists.
  • (10) Eric Gordon, director of Emerson College's Engagement Lab in Boston, takes a more purist approach.
  • (11) The 1995 Judge Dredd movie , starring Sylvester Stallone, angered some purists because he took his helmet off.
  • (12) If he gets there, at 32, in two such daunting matches, acclaim will have to flow, but there will be trouble from the purists.
  • (13) I know lots of purist Conservatives say this is not something the Tory party should do,” he says.
  • (14) The purists will brook no such change, insisting Republicans must stay true to their small government, socially conservative message.
  • (15) I was kind of hoping they might manage a reprise of their purist-bothering act at Euro 2004, only on the biggest stage of all.
  • (16) The bedroom tones of Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington have enticed a cult audience to the late-night Radio 3 show, which jumps from Indian classical to American post-rock to British early music with an audacious rapidity that regularly outrages musical purists.
  • (17) It can be demonstrated that puristic ideologies tend to be inhumane.
  • (18) Though such innovations are anathema to many purist climbers, some Sherpas welcome them.
  • (19) As a purist I would love the fighters to be able to kick the head of a downed opponent,” he says.
  • (20) It might be less deadly than it was, and the miles of fixed ropes appal climbing purists, who say it’s not real mountaineering, but it’s still a dangerous, acutely uncomfortable environment that could end up killing you.

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