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What does purism mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things, especially of language
  2. (countable) An example of purist language etc
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In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
But that is almost a shame, because he represented a strand that we don't otherwise see much of: English purism.
About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
Harry Seidler's breathtaking refinement of detail and visual purism, when it appeared after World War II, was aided by a new interpretation of modern architecture.
Technically, they speak of a purism which redefines the areas of documentary photography in which they may be flippantly or carelessly bracketed.
Wolf Udo Wagner eliminates the extraneous with an elegantly functional purism.

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