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Prescriptivist
Meaning
Noun
●
In Linguistics & Occupations:
Someone who
lays down
rules
regarding
language
usage
, or who
believes
that
traditional
norms
of language
usage
should be upheld.
Adj
●
Having a
tendency
to prescribe.
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prescriptivist
English
-ist
English
prescriptive
English
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Etym
Antonyms
Descriptionist
Descriptivist
Descriptionistic
Descriptivistic
Related
Relativist
Pedant
Postmodernist
Grammarian
Positivist
Literalist
Formalist
Reductionist
Solipsist
Subjectivist
Nominalist
Grammar Nazi
Theistic Evolutionist
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