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Prescriptivist
Noun
Word Frequency:
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Definitions
1.
Noun
Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
2.
Adjective
Having a tendency to prescribe.
Synonyms
prescriptivism
grammar
neo-purism
peeververein
descriptionist
predicativist
hypercorrectism
purism
precisionist
prologist
phoneticist
patientive
Rhymes With
descriptivist
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