0 someone who believes in and follows very traditional rules or ideas in a subject: --
1 a person who believes that it is important to speak, write, or do things in a correct or traditional way: --
Some purists complain that the buildings are not being accurately restored.
Here, as in so many usages, it is becoming so universal in its 'incorrect' form that only purists will object.
Its excessive use in advertising and in the press is often criticized, not only by purists but also by descriptive linguists.
Purist discourse is a ridiculous fantasy, but imagined origins, genealogies, and bloodlines are willfully and pridefully constructed in defiance of hegemonic official discourse.
However, for a purist or a pedagogue it is a nightmare.
A second strand of recent museology is called here 'purist'.
Table 2 gives an overview of the most important differences between the pragmatist and purist perspectives.
The purists demand that every feature in the language be consistent with the basic paradigm.
From a 'purist's' perspective sustainability is simply that which can be sustained entirely from within the building's associated plot.