precisian
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precisian (plural precisians)
- A religious purist; a Puritan.
- Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 47:
- Her speech was hardly more grating upon him, precisian though he was, than the careless, untutored lapses of a child might have been; all the senses of comparison as readily ignored them.
- 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- “A sister of mine will be there,” explained the one, knowing the Duke to be a precisian.