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Noun: prescriptivism
  1. (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behaviour
     
  2. (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics

Type of: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought

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