Red-tapist
Red`-tap´ist
| n. | 1. | One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities. |
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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John Henry Newman promoted the "elbow room" that developing minds need for maturation and he wrote against "dry old red-tapists," academics who wrap the baby so tightly in swaddling clothes that it has room neither to breathe nor to move about.
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