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

 pur·ist /ˈpjʊrɪst/
 純化論者

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pur·ist, n.
 1. One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
    He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist.   --Macaulay.
 2. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 purist
      n : someone who insists on great precision and correctness
          (especially in the use of words)