Definição, Significado & Sinônimos | Inglês word PRESCRIPTIVIST

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Definições de PRESCRIPTIVIST

1. Having a tendency to prescribe.
2. (linguistics) Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

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Exemplos de uso de PRESCRIPTIVIST em uma frase

• Although some neologism that are products of verbification may meet considerable opposition from prescriptivist authorities (the verb sense of impact is a well-known example), most such derivations have become so central to the language after several centuries of use that they no longer draw notice.
• Such preposition-stranding is perfectly grammatical and has been used by the best writers for centuries, though it was, in the past, criticized by prescriptivist grammarians as being either ungrammatical or informal.

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