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prescriptivist (pluralprescriptivists)

(linguistics) Someone who lays down rules regardinglanguage usage, or who believes thattraditionalnorms of language usage should beupheld.
- 2001 April,David Foster Wallace, “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage”, inHarper's Magazine:
  The plutocratic tone andstyptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of thePrescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.

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prescriptivist (comparativemoreprescriptivist,superlativemostprescriptivist)

Having a tendency toprescribe.
- 2012, James Lambert, “BeyondHobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, inWorld Englishes‎^[1], page312:
  In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" byprescriptivist language scholars.