SINCE 1828
prescriptivist
noun
pre·scrip·tiv·ist
| \ -tə̇və̇st\
plural -s
Definition of prescriptivist
: one who advocates prescriptive principles especially in grammar
learned to distrust … prescriptivists— E. P. Hamp
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