Crossword-Solution: PURISTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puristic | a. | Alt. of Puristical |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PURISTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pertaining to nicety in literary style. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PURISTIC (5)
The antithetic balance and word-jingle, with an exquisite, puristic, precise, and delicate lisp, as of one tasting the flavour of his words throughout.
His language, ultra-puristic, had travelled leagues away from the people without approaching at all the splendor of the ancient speech.
The puristic revival had not yet set in, and Sannazzaro's style shows no servile imitation of his model.
They were ready to accept the bastard Latin dialect invented for his second venture, because it offended no puristic sensibilities.
Sometimes his alterations were the offspring of good feeling, sometimes of ordinary puristic scruples, and occasionally of the sickly prudery which led our American grandfathers and grandmothers to speak of the leg of a turkey as its "drum-stick." The word "belly" appears to have been especially trying to his nice sense of propriety.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1944).