purist's Usage Examples:

Many lizards, however, retain the eggs in the oviducts until the embryo is fully developed; these species then bring forth living young and are called ovo-viviparous by purists.

(1623-1644), a purist who unfortunately tampered with the text of the hymns, injuring both their literary charm and their historic worth.

Sasha is a master technician and purist, and always employs the same modus operandi - building a set patiently, progressively.

Not this makeup aficionado, though (perhaps because I'm no purist, and also because I appreciate advancements in makeup as much as I do them in technology).

For the Advent purists this is of course anathema.

He was so often accused by political purists for associating politically with men of discredited reputation that his own picturesque statement of his conversion to a belief that in legislative or administrative politics one must work with all sorts and conditions of men is illuminating.

This may irritate the purists but seems congruent with the call to action and pragmatic approach within.

This map was designed for saber purists that enjoy full force, saber only, team game modes.

Caveats were mentioned by the dance purists.

While much of Coney Island's original charm has been replaced with housing tracts and commercial dealings, there are still some great things to enjoy if you are an amusement park purist visiting the NYC area.

Bembo, as a writer, is the beau ideal of a purist.

3 Illiger may be considered the founder of the school of nomenclatural purists.

Even his classical facades, to a purist, showed inattention to detail.

Synonyms:

bookworm, scholastic, pedant,

Antonyms:

None