(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.
Tradition
Definition:
(n.) The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
(n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
(n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.
(n.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
(n.) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.
(v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(3) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(4) When faced with a big dilemma, the time-honoured tradition of politicians is to order an inquiry, and that is what Browne expects.
(5) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
(6) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(7) Digitalization by direct intramuscular injection of the fetus successfully controlled supraventricular tachycardia at 24 weeks' gestation after more traditional intensive trials of transplacental therapy with digoxin, verapamil, and procainamide, either separately or in combination, had failed.
(8) He strongly welcomes the rise of the NGO movement, which combines with media coverage to produce the beginning of some "countervailing power" to the larger corporations and the traditional policies of first world governments.
(9) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(10) The results showed that patients with and without GOR disease cannot be separated solely on the basis of the standard manometric test, even adopting more parameters besides the traditional DOS pressure measurement.
(11) A group called Campaign for Houston , which led the opposition, described the ordinance as “an attack on the traditional family” designed for “gender-confused men who … can call themselves ‘women’ on a whim”.
(12) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
(13) The Yamaguchi-gumi is reportedly considering a ban on sending traditional gifts to business associates, and holds weekly meetings to discuss its response to the new ordinances.
(14) The main benefit of the newer drugs is that they offer new options for the treatment of patients who cannot tolerate side effects of the traditional drugs or have responded unsatisfactorily to them.
(15) More than 90% of both groups were cured, indicating the lack of benefit from the traditional delayed hysterectomy sequence.
(16) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(17) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(18) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(19) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
(20) Instead the textbook simply reads: "Traditional industries, such as shipbuilding and coal mining, declined ... during her premiership, there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK".