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plural precisians
A religious purist; a Puritan. examples
Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler. quotations examples
Her speech was hardly more grating upon him, precisian though he was, than the careless, untutored lapses of a child might have been; all the senses of comparison as readily ignored them.
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 47
“A sister of mine will be there,” explained the one, knowing the Duke to be a precisian.
1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson