Usually means: Strict adherence to traditional forms.
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  1. purism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Purism, purism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purism: Vocabulary.com
  6. purism: Wordnik
  7. purism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. purism: Wiktionary
  9. purism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. purism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. purism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Purism, purism: Dictionary.com
  13. Purism (Company), Purism (Spanish architecture), Purism (arts), Purism (company), Purism (disambiguation), Purism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Purism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. purism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Purism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. purism: Free Dictionary
  18. purism: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (purism)

noun:  An insistence on pure or unmixed forms.
noun:  (linguistics) The desire to use words and forms derived from what is considered the native element in a given language instead of elements considered borrowed or foreign.
noun:  (uncountable) An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things.
noun:  (countable) An example of purist language etc.

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