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Cistercian monks protested that such a sumptuous structure was an insult to the godly virtue of poverty, and today, architectural purists still find Notre-Dame a bit “too much.”
This may be more than sufficient, perhaps, to drive the literary purists to suicide.
Vast and utterly pragmatic, they are used as freely by the purists who condemn them (when they relax) as by those who simply go with the flow.
Purists always seem bent on the preservation of an older stage of the language.
The hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip ( Primula veris x vulgaris , sometimes called Primula variabilis ) is known as the oxlip . Usually it is called the common oxlip because it occurs quite frequently, but purists prefer to call it the false oxlip since there is a third species, Primula elatior , now found only in the eastern counties of England, which is, for them, the true oxlip . To add to the confusion the true oxlip is also known as the paigle , a name which, in the past, has been rather indiscriminately applied to several wildflowers including buttercups.