Pūʹrist, n.

n. [Fr. puriste, It. & Sp. purista, from Lat. purus, pure.] 1. One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, especially in the choice of language. He [Fox] was so nervously apprehensive of sliding into some colloquial incorrectness, of debasing his style by a mixture of parliamentary slang, that he ran into the opposite error, and purified his vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist. Macaulay. 2. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek. M. Stuart.