Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.
Meanings
Of or pertaining to purism.
He was the first to play for money, a practice which got him ousted from the purist U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:
sv puristisk (pertaining to purism) · cs puristický (pertaining to purism) · fi puhdasoppinen (pertaining to purism) · no puristisk (pertaining to purism) · ca purista (pertaining to purism) · nl puristisch (pertaining to purism) · hy մաքրամոլական (pertaining to purism) · ru пури́стский (pertaining to purism) · es purista (pertaining to purism) · fi puristinen (pertaining to purism) · pt purista (pertaining to purism) · pl purystyczny (pertaining to purism) · fr puriste (pertaining to purism) · gl purista (pertaining to purism) · de puristisch (pertaining to purism)
Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.
Meanings
An advocate of purism.
One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage. 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
cs purista (advocate of purism) · fi puristi (advocate of purism) · sv renhetsivrare (advocate of purism) · gl purista (advocate of purism) · kk пурист (advocate of purism) · sv purist (advocate of purism) · fi puhdasoppinen (advocate of purism) · es purista (advocate of purism) · ru пури́стка (advocate of purism) · pl purysta (advocate of purism) · pt purista (advocate of purism) · hy մաքրամոլ (advocate of purism) · ca purista (advocate of purism) · ja 純粋主義者 (advocate of purism) · he טַהֲרָן (advocate of purism) · nl purist (advocate of purism) · it purista (advocate of purism) · cmn 純粹主義者 /纯粹主义者 (advocate of purism) · de Puristin (advocate of purism) · ko 순수주의자 (advocate of purism) · ru пури́ст (advocate of purism) · de Purist (advocate of purism) · fr puriste (advocate of purism)