Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Formalist

Formalist , noun

[Compare French formaliste.]

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