precisianism
English
Noun
precisianism (countable and uncountable, plural precisianisms)
- The quality or state of being a precisian
- Synonyms: pedantry, Puritanism
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
- they who in other matters express so little feare either of God or man , should in this one particular outstripp all precisianism with thir scruples and cases
Further reading
- “precisianism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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