"languagist" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1871, Victoria Rybot, Half a dozen daughters, page 124",
          "text": "\"Oh dear, dear!\" said Miss Crocky, admiringly, \" he is such a languagist ; isn't he, Miss Norah? I tell him he's thrown away here. His place is at courts, I'm sure.\"",
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          "ref": "1912, Sara White Isaman, Sophisticating Uncle Hiram, page 223",
          "text": "'French ain't a hurtin' me,' says I, 'it's my English, I guess their French is mostly like that Pasadena woman's Herman's wife was a tellin' me about. Herself an' all her friends thought she was a fine French languagist, an' when she went into a restaurant in Paris the only way she could make the French waiter understand she wanted bread an' butter was a pintin' to it, an' then pintin' to her mouth.'",
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          "ref": "2012, Frank O'Neill, Georgia Bound",
          "text": "\"Now you just get ahold of yourself, lady, and tell me what's going on. In English. I ain't no languagist, you hear?”",
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        "A linguist; one who is proficient in languages."
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          "ref": "1966, The Literary Criterion - Volume 7, Issue 3, page 76",
          "text": "They can do with these all that the languagists claim to do, and more — save English for our children for, by the way they teach English the lifeblood has escaped, only the skeleton remains.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Z. Anthony Kruszewski, Richard L. Hough, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, Politics and Society in the Southwest: Ethnicity and Chicano Pluralism",
          "text": "Identifying and curbing the activity of such ethnocentric languagist functionaries ought to rank high among Chicano political priorities .",
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        }
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        "One who discriminates on the basis of language use."
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          "ref": "1871, Victoria Rybot, Half a dozen daughters, page 124",
          "text": "\"Oh dear, dear!\" said Miss Crocky, admiringly, \" he is such a languagist ; isn't he, Miss Norah? I tell him he's thrown away here. His place is at courts, I'm sure.\"",
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          "ref": "1912, Sara White Isaman, Sophisticating Uncle Hiram, page 223",
          "text": "'French ain't a hurtin' me,' says I, 'it's my English, I guess their French is mostly like that Pasadena woman's Herman's wife was a tellin' me about. Herself an' all her friends thought she was a fine French languagist, an' when she went into a restaurant in Paris the only way she could make the French waiter understand she wanted bread an' butter was a pintin' to it, an' then pintin' to her mouth.'",
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          "text": "They can do with these all that the languagists claim to do, and more — save English for our children for, by the way they teach English the lifeblood has escaped, only the skeleton remains.",
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        },
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          "text": "Identifying and curbing the activity of such ethnocentric languagist functionaries ought to rank high among Chicano political priorities .",
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