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English
Etymology
From precisian + -ism.
Noun
precisianism (countable and uncountable, plural precisianisms)
- The quality or state of being a precisian
- Synonyms: pedantry, Puritanism
1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ , London: Matthew Simmons, , →OCLC:they who in other matters express so little feare either of God or man , should in this one particular outstripp all precisianism with thir scruples and cases
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