Purism is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 118 anagrams from letters in purism (imprsu).
First recorded in 1795-1805; pure + -ism
This is not a time for purism of style; and style has little to do with the worth or unworth of a book.
The simplicity and purism of the tea-room resulted from emulation of the Zen monastery.
As a general rule, I think, educated Americans are more apt to err on the side of purism than of laxity.
Though strongly tinctured with Ciceronian purism, his taste was more austere than Bembo's.
But this was not so much a matter of purism, but rather the old quarrel between Lombards and Tuscans.
Such a doctrine is a doctrine of puritanism—or purism, which is worse.
The third party took the name of Peter, or Cephas, as in their Hebrew purism they preferred to call him.
No writer of the period has such a command of pure English, unadulterated by xenomania and unweakened by purism, as Daniel.
purism, whether in grammar or vocabulary, almost always means ignorance.
The origin of this terminology seems to me to lie in a bit of purism.