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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca