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comparative more prescriptive, superlative most prescriptive
Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard. quotations examples
For one thing, spoken language tends to be less subjected to prescriptive pressures than written language, and hence is a less artificial medium of com- munication (written language is often a kind of 'censored' version of spoken language). [...]
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, page 8