prescriptivistic
Synonym of prescriptivist.
Adjective
- Synonym of prescriptivist.
- Perhaps once more the somewhat prescriptivistic nature of most grammars of the time accounts for the reluctance to regulate language choice suggested by Heath and Mandabach. - 1983, “Language Planning: The State of the...
- For a few verbs, continued wavering between past participles is reflected in Fabra’s prescriptivistic Gràmatica catalana (1969). - 1999, Richard Laurent, “Chapter 4. Past Participles in Western Romance”, in Past...
- The point here is not that Moore did not recognize the essentially prescriptive character of moral language—as it was maintained by Hare—but, more likely, that we are facing two entirely different conceptions and...
Synonyms: prescriptivist
Origin
From prescriptive + -istic or prescriptivist + -ic.