Associations to the word «Prescriptivist»
Wiktionary
PRESCRIPTIVIST, noun. Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
PRESCRIPTIVIST, adjective. Having a tendency to prescribe.
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.