- - Early 20th-century art movement
- - Early 20th-century French art style
- - Rigid adherence
- - Modified primus - it'll appeal to traditionalist
- - Insistence on traditional correctness
- - Stickler's belief
- - Strict linguistic correctness
- - Aversion to slang, say
- - Insistence on precise standards
- - Insistence on chasteness
- - Strict adherence to rules
- - Stickler's creed
- - William Safire quality
- - Chaste pursuit
- - Strict use of language, etc.
- - Observance of correctness
- - Pedant's thinking
- - Rigid insistence on nicety
- - Adherence to nicety in diction.
- - Insistence on precise usage of language.
- - Meticulosity.
- - Rigid nicety in use of words.
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