Example sentences for: purism

How can you use “purism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This review is not the place to take up the cudgel against purism or spelling reform, but I could not resist adducing such apt comments as can be found in this work.

  • Put another way, the acceptance of nonstandard language to replace the comfortable protection offered by linguistic purism amounts to moving the goalposts in a game that they have been playing for their entire lives according to a different set of rules.

  • There are occasional hidden entries, as the list of diseases—among them the dread mohogus —under the entry for Fowlenzia . (In the VERBATIM family, some suffer from Fowler's pip , an affliction affecting language fanatics who base a slavish purism on a literal interpretation of Modern English Usage .)


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