Crossword-Solution: PURIST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Purist | n. | One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language. |
| Purist | n. | One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PURIST | anagram | SPRUIT, STIRUP, UPSTIR |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PURIST (5)
More than one literary purist might identify him as a shoddy newspaper correspondent without the necessary faculty of style.
Hence his fondness for tramps, for scamps (he even bestowed special attention and pains on Villon, the poet-scamp); he was rather impatient with poor Thoreau, because he was a purist solitary, and had too little of vice, and, as Stevenson held, narrow in sympathy, and too self-satisfied, and bent only on self-improvement.
But as we might expect under circumstances where a purist could not correct his own proofs, there are not a few inconsistencies.
Stevenson telling me, at this time, that he was doing some "regular crawlers," for this purist had a boyish habit of slang, and I _think_ it was he who called Julius Caesar "the howlingest cheese who ever lived." One of the "crawlers" was "Thrawn Janet"; after "Wandering Willie's Tale" (but certainly _after_ it), to my taste, it seems the most wonderful story of the "supernatural" in our language.
Steuvisant; “not a vice, you know, Reggie.” “Aye, Empress,” put in the others, “a purist taken in the net.
Quotes with PURIST (3)
They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.
And in front of it all are the pearly gates: the proverbial entrance to Heaven that she, in earthly life, thought might not exist. But they are real, not myth or fantasy. As she passes through them, several people greet her. In foreign tongues even, but she understands. Language no longer matter. There are no barriers between herself and others, just love. The gorgeous views seem to go on forever. Ornate structures, mansions, banquet halls, and natural beauty, orchards, garde…
Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 51 times in crossword archives (1946–2023).