purism in English

noun

1

scrupulous or exaggerated observance of or insistence on traditional rules or structures, especially in language or style.

But generally speaking, in our emerging virtual era the stress is no longer on questions relating to style, purism , or historical tradition.

2

an early-20th-century artistic style and movement founded by Le Corbusier and the French painter Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966) and emphasizing purity of geometric form. It arose out of a rejection of cubism and was characterized by a return to the representation of recognizable objects.

Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Purism , Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, social realism, his art experienced them all.

Use "purism" in a sentence

1. What is Anglish; Linguistic purism in English - …

2. No amount of purism can really purify a man.

3. Purism was to be unsullied by ornament, fantasy or individuality and was to be inspired by the machine.

4. Conflicting notions of language purity: the interplay of Archaising, ethnographic, reformist, elitist and xenophobic purism in the perception of Standard Chinese

5. Anglish in English Linguistic purism in the English language is the belief that words of native origin should be used instead of foreign-derived ones (which are mainly Latinate and Greek)

6. Archaising purism: attempt to resuscitate the linguistic material of a past golden age, an exaggerated respect for past literary models, an excessive conservatism towards innovations or a recognition of the importance of literary tradition

7. ‘Purism, however, also has its Barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses.’ More example sentences ‘For instance, Fowler preferred Britishism to Briticism, labelling the latter a barbarism; Burchfield simply comments that Briticism is now the more