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As a general rule, I think, educated Americans are more apt to err on the side of purism than of laxity.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHERNo writer of the period has such a command of pure English, unadulterated by xenomania and unweakened by purism, as Daniel.
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATUREGEORGE SAINTSBURYPurism, whether in grammar or vocabulary, almost always means ignorance.
THOMAS HARDY'S DORSETROBERT THURSTON HOPKINSHis 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.
DOCTOR THORNEANTHONY TROLLOPEIf we attempt such purism we must fail signally as constructors and as artists.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1885VARIOUSThe rhetoric of the seventeenth century was a necessary outgrowth of pedantic purism.
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: ITALIAN LITERATUREJOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDSThe origin of this terminology seems to me to lie in a bit of purism.
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT AND LORD MOUNTEAGLE'S LETTERHENRY HAWKES SPINK JR.The simplicity and purism of the tea-room resulted from emulation of the Zen monastery.
THE BOOK OF TEAKAKUZO OKAKURAEven the devout played into the hands of the worldly by their very purism.
THE WILL TO DOUBTALFRED H. LLOYDThis is not a time for purism of style; and style has little to do with the worth or unworth of a book.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SOURCESJAMES WOODWORDS RELATED TO PURISM
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