permissivist

permissivist
n.
In linguistics circles, a person who blindly welcomes all new coinages, grammatical shifts, and usage changes.
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"By now you must be thinking that I am a flaming permissivist who adopts as a household pet any new use that crawls out of the language woodwork."
— Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore
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  • permissivism — permissivist, n. /peuhr mis euh viz euhm/, n. lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior. [1965 70; PERMISSIVE + ISM] * * * …   Universalium

  • permissivism — permissivist, n. /peuhr mis euh viz euhm/, n. lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior. [1965 70; PERMISSIVE + ISM] …   Useful english dictionary

  • per|mis´sive|ness — per|mis|sive «puhr MIHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. not forbidding; tending to permit; allowing: »a permissive attitude, permissive parents. Not a positive, but a permissive command (Henry More). A discussion of pragmatism was naturally… …   Useful english dictionary

  • per|mis´sive|ly — per|mis|sive «puhr MIHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. not forbidding; tending to permit; allowing: »a permissive attitude, permissive parents. Not a positive, but a permissive command (Henry More). A discussion of pragmatism was naturally… …   Useful english dictionary

  • per|mis|sive — «puhr MIHS ihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. not forbidding; tending to permit; allowing: »a permissive attitude, permissive parents. Not a positive, but a permissive command (Henry More). A discussion of pragmatism was naturally related to their… …   Useful english dictionary

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