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purist: someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)

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positivist collapse: someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes; of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers"; "positivist doctrine"; "positive philosophy"

bluestocking collapse: a woman having literary or intellectual interests

straightlaced collapse

procrustean collapse: of or relating to the mythical giant Procrustes or the mode of torture practiced by him

dogmatist collapse: a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

prig collapse

muscle bound collapse

Sabbatarian collapse: one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism); pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance

pedant collapse: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

bigot collapse: a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

ironclad collapse: a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor; inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"; sheathed in iron plates for protection

creedbound collapse

stickler collapse: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

rockbound collapse

evangelical collapse: marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause; of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament; relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels; "evangelical Christianity"; "an ultraconservative evangelical message"

uncompromising collapse: not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"

donkey collapse: the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

classicist collapse: an artistic person who adheres to classicism; a student of ancient Greek and Latin

fundamentalist collapse: a supporter of fundamentalism; of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism

precisian collapse

diehard collapse

intransigent collapse

ironbound collapse

stylist collapse: an artist who is a master of a particular style

hardnose collapse

formalist collapse

puritan collapse: someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures; a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship

puristic collapse

puritanical collapse: of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism

priggish collapse: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

inexorable collapse

mule collapse: hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile; a slipper that has no fitting around the heel

straitlaced collapse

perfectionist collapse: a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards

hidebound collapse: stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded

dour collapse: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

staunch collapse

orthodox collapse: adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"; of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox Judaism"; of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church

bigoted collapse: blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view"

unbending collapse

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