Stickler vs Precisian - What's the difference?
stickler | precisian |
*, II.27:
*:In ancient time they were wont to employ third persons as sticklers , to see no treachery or disorder were used, and to beare witnes of the combates successe.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Dryden
Someone who insistently advocates (for) something.
:Lexicographers are stickler s for correct language.
* Jonathan Swift
A religious purist; a Puritan.
Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler.
*1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 47:
*:Her speech was hardly more grating upon him, precisian though he was, than the careless, untutored lapses of a child might have been; all the senses of comparison as readily ignored them.
As nouns the difference between stickler and precisian
is that stickler is while precisian is a religious purist; a puritan.stickler
English
Noun
(en noun)- Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
- Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, / First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
- The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.
