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Prescriptionist (adj) means Based on what was traditionally done, rather than on how things are used now.

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Based on what was traditionally done, rather than on how things are used now.

"Teaching the English language may be their bread and butter, but they are unable to enforce the notion of a 'standard prescriptionist English.'" — Stuart Nicholson, Is Jazz Dead?: Or Has It Moved to a New Address (2014)

"Much of the disagreement between the prescriptionist and descriptionist views turns on the question of compensation among generations." — James P. Bruce, Hoe-sŏng Yi (1996)

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