Usually means: Advocate for strict language rules.
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  2. prescriptivist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prescriptivist: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. prescriptivist: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (prescriptivist)

noun:  (linguistics) Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
adjective:  Having a tendency to prescribe.

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