Meaning of FORMALIST
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| | Definition: | | \Form"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. formaliste.]
One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them;
esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes
strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the
life and spirit of religion.
As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes,
as libertines from wits. --Young.
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| | Related Terms: | | affecter, anal character, Babbitt, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, canter, canting hypocrite, chameleon, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, dissembler, dissimulator, formularist, formulist, High-Churchist, Holy Willie, hypocrite, Joseph Surface, lip server, lip worshiper, liturgist, Mawworm, methodologist, Middle American, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, Pecksniff, pedant, perfectionist, Pharisee, Philistine, pietist, pious fraud, plastic person, poser, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisianist, precisionist, purist, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite, ritualist, Sabbatarian, sacramentarian, sheep, sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, square, Tartuffe, teenybopper, temporizer, timepleaser, timeserver, trimmer, Vicar of Bray, weathercock, whited sepulcher, yes-man |
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