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.
Many of us, like the purists, look back to earlier, simpler times when children did not have to cope with modern contradictions.
On the other hand, purists felt that such commercialization tainted the true pursuit of natural philosophy.
It is not so much the authentic past of items that is of interest to purists as it is the reception in a present.
I then consider current debates among curators and distinguish between two main exhibition strategies, one pragmatist, the other purist.
This conclusion may not satisfy the purist, and it does not mean that welfare comparisons can readily be made on a person-to-person basis.
Exhibits that conform to a purist perspective often have to deal with a seldom openly admitted economic problem.
Or, from the purist point of view, that everyone should seek for and conform to when found.
From a 'purist's' perspective sustainability is simply that which can be sustained entirely from within the building's associated plot.
