Definitions for purisms

purisms pur·ism

Spelling: [pyoo r-iz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈpyʊər ɪz əm/

Purisms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in purisms (imprssu).

Definitions for purisms

noun

  1. strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
  2. an instance of this.
  3. (often initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of art developed in France in the early 20th century, characterized by the use of simple geometric forms and images evocative of objects produced by machine.

Origin of purisms

First recorded in 1795-1805; pure + -ism

Examples for purisms

This is not a time for purism of style; and style has little to do with the worth or unworth of a book.

purism, whether in grammar or vocabulary, almost always means ignorance.

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.

The origin of this terminology seems to me to lie in a bit of purism.

Though strongly tinctured with Ciceronian purism, his taste was more austere than Bembo's.

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.

But this was not so much a matter of purism, but rather the old quarrel between Lombards and Tuscans.

No writer of the period has such a command of pure English, unadulterated by xenomania and unweakened by purism, as Daniel.

Word Value for purisms
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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