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Definition of Precisionist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precisionist
Literary usage of Precisionist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preaching and Sermon Construction by Paul Bertie Bull (1922)
"For instance, a precisionist will conscientiously pronounce both "r's" in "dearer"
... Dickens has immortalized the precisionist in the instruction of Mrs. ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"Nor is the precisionist alone in entertaining this alarming view. For many others
who are not sticklers for strict propriety and correctness of speech share ..."
3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"Notwithstanding this, being (pace Mr. Hodgson) something of a precisionist in
the use of terms, I undertake if ever I have a chance, to substitute for ..."
4. The Three Religious Leaders of Oxford and Their Movements: John Wycliffe by Samuel Parkes Cadman (1916)
"Yet the controversialist and the precisionist were no longer welcome to him: he
rather laid emphasis upon the grace of God manifested in the forgiveness of ..."
5. The Story of Dutch Paintingby Charles Henry Caffin by Charles Henry Caffin (1909)
"... and a stickler for its recognition; an ingrained precisionist, as upright as
her backbone and as set in formalism as her corseted figure. ..."
6. Preaching and Sermon Construction by Paul Bertie Bull (1922)
"For instance, a precisionist will conscientiously pronounce both "r's" in "dearer"
... Dickens has immortalized the precisionist in the instruction of Mrs. ..."
7. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"Nor is the precisionist alone in entertaining this alarming view. For many others
who are not sticklers for strict propriety and correctness of speech share ..."
8. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"Notwithstanding this, being (pace Mr. Hodgson) something of a precisionist in
the use of terms, I undertake if ever I have a chance, to substitute for ..."
9. The Three Religious Leaders of Oxford and Their Movements: John Wycliffe by Samuel Parkes Cadman (1916)
"Yet the controversialist and the precisionist were no longer welcome to him: he
rather laid emphasis upon the grace of God manifested in the forgiveness of ..."
10. The Story of Dutch Paintingby Charles Henry Caffin by Charles Henry Caffin (1909)
"... and a stickler for its recognition; an ingrained precisionist, as upright as
her backbone and as set in formalism as her corseted figure. ..."
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