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Formalist
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What's The Definition Of Formalist?Synonyms | Synonyms for Formalist: Related Terms | Find terms related to Formalist: 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 See Also | Formalist In Webster's Dictionary \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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