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purists

purists is the plural of purist.

Meaning of purist

Noun

purist (plural purists)

  1. An advocate of purism.
    • One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38

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Questions about purists

What is purists the plural of?
Purists is the plural of purist.

Words near purists in the dictionary

  1. purist
  2. purist Greek
  3. puristic
  4. puristical
  5. puristically
  6. purists
  7. puritan
  8. Puritan work ethic
  9. Puritan work ethics
  10. Puritandom
  11. Puritaness

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