English
prescriptivistic
From prescriptive + -istic or prescriptivist + -ic.
Formed from prescriptive + -istic
Latin praescriptivus ‘relating to a legal exception’
English prescriptive
Today it means
adj Synonym of prescriptivist.
Sources
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