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prescriptive adjective accepted, acknowledge, accnowledge through possession, acknowledge through use, admitted, binding, commanded by long use, commanding, compulsory, customary, decretal, determined, dictated, fixed, legalized, long-established, longstanding, obligatory, ordained by custom, popular, preceptive, prescribed, recognized, recognized because of continued possession, recognized through use, required by custom, rooted, set, settled, time-honored, traditional, traditive, understood, unwritten, usual, vested, wonted Associated concepts: prescriptive rights See also: compulsory, decretal, formal, legislative, orthodox, rightful, traditional, unalienable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He kept us up-to-date with new editions of reference works, and gave us history regarding longtime standbys: 1963 saw Webster's Third New International Dictionary break the mold of prescriptivism and venture into descriptive territory (CW, May-June 1990). Payne also refers to the ideological aspect of architectural prescriptivism, especially in the nascent academies. Landau's front-of-the-book essay Dictionaries of English: He prints a splendid section on prescriptivism (there are degrees of correctness in language usage) and descriptivism (the concept of correctness in language is neither useful nor relevant). |
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