But the claims of the puristswere most successfully met by the express renunciation of the higher qualities of style, and the adoption of a vigorous, popular language in their stead.
When style and language had once become the property of a living society, all the efforts of purists and archaists failed to secure their end.
The puristsmaintained that the New Testament idiom was pure and classical, thinking that its inspiration would otherwise be endangered.
Notwithstanding his having previously maintained contrary principles in the matter of church discipline, he attached himself to the party of the purists and urged them into schism.
Passionate purists have, indeed, claimed that the charming Half-Beaver is a D.
Some purists refuse to score these Fringed-Georgics on the plea that the upper lip is bare and the chin partially bare and that they are, therefore, double-faults.
Some purists wished to forbid the use of car, which was defended by Voiture.
Note 3: Peter Martyr was not ignorant of the jibes his Latin evoked amongst the purists in Rome.
There were purists of this kind at Rome; and their fastidiousness was censured by Horace, with that perfect good sense and good taste which characterise all his writings.
There were purists of this kind at the time of the revival of letters; and the two greatest scholars of that time raised their voices, the one from within, the other from without the Alps, against a scrupulosity so unreasonable.
In fact, the capitalisation of reserves is sometimes criticised by economic purists as a retrograde step because it seems likely to encourage the directors to be extravagant in the matter of dividends.
This kind of Bonus share is chiefly known on the other side of the Atlantic, and is usually damned with bell, book and candle by purists among English financial critics.
Thus the efforts of the purists took a false direction from the outset both in prose and verse.
Starting from his cardinal axiom that good manners demand freedom from all affectation, he deprecates the use in speech or writing of those antiquated Tuscan words the purists loved.
While following Petrarch to the letter, the purists neglected his odes to Rienzi and the Princes of Italy.
His style is, therefore, the reverse of that which the purists cultivated.
They are thepurists among music-lovers, the last people who would care to see the classical forms abandoned, and who would be disturbed, not to say shocked, by any great departure from the sonata form.
For just as its devotees are the purists among music-lovers, so chamber music itself is something very "precious.
But think of the wild havoc that would be made of other more complex anomalies, if these purists looked an inch in advance.
And that the purists should never have contemplated these veritable results, this it is which seals and rivets one's contempt for them.
Unfortunately the German translations of Verdi's operas are not worth a straw, and we are greatpurists at Weimar.
Even Sweet, though he bases his New English Grammar upon the spoken language and thus sets the purists at defiance, quickly succumbs to the labelling mania.
Even after the purists of the eighteenth century began their corrective work this confusion continued.
It is constantly forgotten by purists of defective philological equipment that a great many of our most respectable words and phrases originated in the plainest sort of slang.
There is something inordinately offensive to English purists in the very thought of taking lessons from this side of the water, particularly in the mother tongue.
Various other purists joined in the attack, and it was renewed with great fury after the appearance of Worcester's dictionary, in 1846.
English has been arrested in its growth by its puristsand grammarians.
A glance through the /Congressional Record/ is sufficient to show how small is the minority of purists among the chosen leaders of the nation.
Though thepurists may fall in a rage That two rhymes go thrice in one lay, You may passably echo an age That is fading forgotten away.
The use of this verb in the intransitive has been condemned by purists but is now well established.
A word meaning “upon the top of,” avoided by purists as colloquial or vulgar.
At the same time with the Purists appeared the Concettisti, punsters, and utterers of grave saws in frigid and sententious language: D.
For though they cannot be called Purists in all the rigour of the term, they adopted some of the elements which composed the dialect, such as violent transpositions, extravagant hyperboles, and incoherent figures.
Fearlessly the purists persisted in their charge that the work was purely secular and operatic in style.
He invested recitative with greater strength and freedom, and astonished contemporary purists with his audacious orchestral designs.
Classicists andpurists in art doubtless look askance at a work which would certainly have enchanted the sovereign romancer.
The vast majority of Spanish purists are convinced that the only possible rhetoric is the rhetoric of the major key.
The truth is simply this: the individual writer endeavours to make of language a cloak to fit his form, while, contrarywise, the purists attempt to mould their bodies till they fit the cloak.
Ike the Blood complained that certain annoying purists were preaching a crusade against the Raines Law Hotels.
The purists took the pictures to the District Attorney, their hirelings told their tales, and Mike perforce went into that sad Toronto exile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
