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  1. descriptivist: Merriam-Webster
  2. descriptivist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. descriptivist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. descriptivist: Wordnik
  5. descriptivist: Wiktionary
  6. descriptivist: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. descriptivist: Dictionary.com
  8. descriptivist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (descriptivist)

adjective:  Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
noun:  (linguistics) Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.

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