purist vs scholastic

purist and scholastic both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
purist	Yes	No	No	No
scholastic	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, scholastic is a hypernym of purist; that is, scholastic is a word with a broader meaning than purist:

purist: someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
scholastic: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Other hypernyms of purist include bookworm, pedant.

purist (noun)	scholastic (noun)
someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)	a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

purist (adjective)	scholastic (adjective)
	of or relating to schools
	of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism