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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