purism

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“There’s no point of having some kind of a revolutionary purism that you should only preach to the choir. That would be completely pointless,” Malm said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2023

But I do employ a similar sense of purism about the general strategy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2021

He added: "The EU needs a new playbook for dealing with neighbours, one that involves pragmatic solutions between friends, not the imposition of one side's rules on the other and legal purism."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2021

Seth, pathetically grateful to have hitched his nerdy wagon to a star as cool as Carter’s, shares his friend’s taste, if not his fanatical purism.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2017

A metaphysical neutrality, on the other hand, although denying that reality as such is predestined to morality—and thus affording no possibility of an ethical absolutism—becomes the true ground for an ethical purism.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton