prescriptivist

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

prescriptivism grammar neo-purism peeververein descriptionist predicativist hypercorrectism purism precisionist prologist

Often followed by

view attitudes approach tradition account theory position