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precisian en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪˈsɪ.ʒən/ (UK)

Etymology

From precise + -ian.

Meanings

1. A religious purist; a Puritan.
2. Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler.
   • 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. 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 47:
   • “A sister of mine will be there,” explained the one, knowing the Duke to be a precisian. 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

Forms

Deriveds

precisianistic · precisianism · precisianist