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Formalist
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.