purist

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The same is generally true if you try be a purist of any kind.

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An advocate of purism.

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noun

An advocate of purism.

adjective

Of or pertaining to purism.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for purist.

noun

An advocate of purism.

adjective

Of or pertaining to purism.

Example sentences

The same is generally true if you try be a purist of any kind.

I don't disagree that Mozilla was never a purist organization, but I think the suggestion is well substantiated.

There's all sorts of sticky areas where extreme purist views get sullied from contact with the real world.

Jesus wasn't above a bit of 'violent' police-work anyway - chasing away shopkeepers from a temple with a whip isn't purist non-violence.

Yes, the previous commenter is a purist with no battery life on their laptop.

One could argue Mozilla was quite purist when they ejected Brendan Eich because his personal beliefs were not shared by fellow employees...

If you're really such a purist, they should have been your enemy all along.

The stand-up seems to operate on this purist view that people have a set plan of what they will work on for the day.

I guess if you're trying to be a Docker purist (for no reason) then sure.

And I hear all the purist saying well the problem was someone skipped stage etc.

I'm not as much of a purist, but that line jumped out at me too.

Not only that but purist definitions help nothing at all.

Quote examples

It's definitely an enthusiast/purist attitude, but common enough that some distilleries now specify "natural colour".

I suppose I shouldn't have let that come off as a purist "only ask this" situation.

I would argue that "dependency injection" at its purist is little more than the side-effect of designing with intent to minimise module responsibility.

"OK, but a Clojure purist would probably see those occasions as maybe highlighting gaps in that language’s coverage." A Clojure "purist" is probably still programming Scheme.