A related but broader concept than legal purity: the demand that law itself be kept “pure” from contamination by politics, morality, economics, or social context. Law purity treats law as an autonomous system that must be governed by its own internal logic, insulated from external values that would “corrupt” it. This mirrors political purity in its insistence on boundary maintenance and its fear of hybrid forms. While often associated with legal formalism, law purity also appears in radical critiques that treat engagement with existing legal institutions as inherently compromising. The result is often a retreat from using law as a tool for social change.
Example: “His law purity led him to refuse participating in any legal reform effort—he saw engagement with the existing system as legitimizing it, even when reforms would have reduced harm.”
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Definition:
1. The rigorous avoidance of foreign obscenities and vulgarities in multilingual communication.
2. Strict adherence to pure linguistic forms, rejecting hybridization or assumption from other languages.
3. Dedication to preserving linguistic integrity and cultural authenticity in cross-language contexts.
4. Preference for standardized, culturally-aligned expressions over mixed or acquired terms.
Significance:
• It defines linguistic rigidity across languages.
• It emphasizes linguistic discipline and uniformity.
• It identifies cultural sensitivity in communication.
• It avoids mixing disparate linguistic elements.
• It simplifies multilingual standards.
• It improves clarity in official translations.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, including native obscene expressions.
Definition:
1. The rigorous avoidance of foreign obscenities and vulgarities in multilingual communication.
2. Strict adherence to pure linguistic forms, rejecting hybridization or assumption from other languages.
3. Dedication to preserving linguistic integrity and cultural authenticity in cross-language contexts.
4. Preference for standardized, culturally-aligned expressions over mixed or acquired terms.
Significance:
• It defines linguistic rigidity across languages.
• It emphasizes linguistic discipline and uniformity.
• It identifies cultural sensitivity in communication.
• It avoids mixing disparate linguistic elements.
• It simplifies multilingual standards.
• It improves clarity in official translations.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, including native obscene expressions.
Examples:
• "In the American (English) language, interlingual purism tries to avoid Russian (foreign) obscene and vulgar expressions."
• "In the Spanish language, interlingual purism tries to avoid Russian (foreign) obscene and vulgar expressions."
• "Interlingual purism ensures accurate and respectful translations."
• "Translators practicing interlingual purism enhance cultural harmony."
• "Educators advocate interlingual purism to safeguard linguistic boundaries."
• "In the American (English) language, interlingual purism tries to avoid Russian (foreign) obscene and vulgar expressions."
• "In the Spanish language, interlingual purism tries to avoid Russian (foreign) obscene and vulgar expressions."
• "Interlingual purism ensures accurate and respectful translations."
• "Translators practicing interlingual purism enhance cultural harmony."
• "Educators advocate interlingual purism to safeguard linguistic boundaries."
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Really dull arty alternative band from England. Their second album Hidden is beyond boring with almost no melody or decent tunes in sight. Yet, this album was critically acclaimed by delusional critics, dreadful stuff.
Friend 1: "Hey man, you heard that new These New Puritans album?"
Friend 2: "Yeah, its awful shite isn't it?"
Friend 1: "Absolutely, let us never talk about it again"
Friend 2: "Yeah, its awful shite isn't it?"
Friend 1: "Absolutely, let us never talk about it again"
by freeflow July 20, 2012
Get the These New Puritans mug.A Philladelphian slang word for the kids from the suburbs in Pennsylvania who only drink purified water, because they’re too snobby for spicket water, which they call sink water. Also called MFLMPW
by slingshot.aj July 16, 2019
Get the Mother Fucking Lower Moreland Purified Water mug.Somebody that is considered elite for withholding from any form of sexual relations past the age of 18, even while expressing extreme desire.
by Pleenb44 November 8, 2019
Get the Elitist of Purity mug.Someone who has a strong attraction, sexual or otherwise, to feet. They prefer to look at feet, and feet alone, without the distraction of other sexual anatomy.
by Pretty Please Toes February 9, 2022
Get the foot fetish purist mug.The aggressive policing of any deviation from established norms and traditions, punishing even mild reforms as contaminating a supposedly pristine, stable system. This goes beyond resistance to change; it's an active crusade to purge "impure" elements—be it new cultural ideas, technologies, or social roles—to maintain a frozen, idealized version of the past. The goal is a museum-diorama society, sterilized of dynamism.
*Example: "The neighborhood association was a cult of status-quo purity. They fined a homeowner for a non-beige mailbox, fought a new bike lane as a 'moral decay vector,' and demanded the book club remove a novel published after 1995. Their mission wasn't stability; it was the militant preservation of a specific, curated year no one actually lived in."*
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