Definition of "prescriptivist" []

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

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• "Likewise, to the dismay of us linguists, National Grammar Day will mostly just result in prescriptivist dilettantes coming out in full force, tossing around ignorant grammatical proclamations with gusto, like so many dimes at a dime toss."
• "This isn’t out of the ordinary for prescriptivists; hardly a month goes by without the Language Loggers pillorying some foolishly certain prescriptivist for breaking the very rule the prescriptivist was trying to impose."
• "(Also, non-prescriptivist is too agnostic a label."