01 n. Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.
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Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.“The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter.” — Craik.