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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pur·ism /ˈpjʊrˌɪzəm/
 語言純正癖,純粹派

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pur·ism n.  Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. “His political purism.”
    The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter.   --Craik.