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- noun Plural form of
purism .
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Examples
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The issue is that all these quests for purisms have yet to yeild sp? any results but alienating allies and ultimately hurting the movement.
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Words like bjúgaldin, a banana, which literally translates as curved fruit are examples of purisms that are laughed at, but what most people don't know is that in some Bantu languages in Africa the first element of the word banana means curved'.
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If he had not written "only for the people," we might never have got beyond the purisms of Virgilio, and the Ciceronian imitations of Bembo.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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a knowledge of it in this way in place of from a pedantic teacher, whose purisms were quite thrown away on one whose wish it was to speak it fluently, although it might be at some sacrifice of elegance.
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking
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