prescriptionist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relying on historical precedent rather than current usage (to determine rights or correctness).
noun
A specialist in preparing medications.
noun
One who prescribes.
Example Sentences
- "Much of the disagreement between the prescriptionist and descriptionist views turns on the question of compensation among generations."
- "Educators often come into the profession with a certain view of language that is more prescriptionist in nature (Edwards, 1982; Taylor, 1983; Trudgill, 1975; Williams, 1976)."
- "Teaching the English language may be their bread and butter, but they are unable to enforce the notion of a 'standard prescriptionist English.'"
- "In a fine essay, Terry Eagleton has argued that rights, for a prescriptionist like Burke, are validated by 'the recounting of a certain narrative'."
- "When there are many speakers of a language around, even the staunchest prescriptionist would agree that the manner of spelling is less vital to the perpetuation of the language."
- "But that would depend on us being a usagist rather than a prescriptionist with respect to language."
Etymology
From prescription + -ist.