proscriptivist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
proscriptive + -ist
Noun[edit]
proscriptivist (plural proscriptivists)
- (rare) One who is characterized by proscribing; one who tends to proscribe.
- 2018, A. Martin Byers, The Real Mound Builders of North America, page 166:
- Pushing on likely required repeated mobilizing of arguments to counter the views of the proscriptivist factions, those promoting a retreat from this prescriptive strategy and the application of a proscriptive ceremonial ideological strategy […]