precisian
Noun
Meaning
One who limits, or restrains.
An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
inquisitor
puritan
bourgeois
burgher
pedant
prig
absolute
precise
accuracy
arbitrary
correctness
austere
coercive
arrogant
traditionalist
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No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.