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purism

noun as in euphemism

noun as in euphuism

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The Librem 5, for example, is built by Purism, an American “social purpose corporation” specializing in privacy-oriented products.

As a general rule, I think, educated Americans are more apt to err on the side of purism than of laxity.

No writer of the period has such a command of pure English, unadulterated by xenomania and unweakened by purism, as Daniel.

Purism, whether in grammar or vocabulary, almost always means ignorance.

His fate was perhaps as sad as well might be, and as foul a blot to the purism of these very pure times in which we live.

If we attempt such purism we must fail signally as constructors and as artists.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to purism, such as: circumlocution, delicacy, floridness, grandiloquence, inflation, and pomposity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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