- a variation of puritanical.
puritanic
Americanadjective
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relating to or characteristic of the Puritans or their beliefs and practices.
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very strict or obsessive about moral and religious matters; straitlaced; puritanical.
Example Sentences
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Eldest son of a poor Idaho farmer and his puritanic wife, Vridar grew up in a shack where food was scarce, comfort unheard-of, with no companions but his younger brother and sister.
From Time Magazine Archive
He lived in almost puritanic simplicity with his mother, enjoyed the fleshpots of Brazil and Europe with his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prim and the precise, or the exact, the homogeneous, the single, the puritanic, the mathematic, the pure, the perfect.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
But at last, in cold disgust at the uncharitable puritanic weather which destroyed all beauty in the landscape, I returned to the town.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
Generally speaking, although not given to excesses, they show no puritanic disposition about drink and are lavish spenders for luxuries.
From Japan and the California Problem by Toyokichi Iyenaga
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