purist

Etymology

French puriste

adj

  1. Of or pertaining to purism.

noun

  1. An advocate of purism.
    One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage. 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38

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