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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He lived in almost puritanic simplicity with his mother, enjoyed the fleshpots of Brazil and Europe with his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Not the broad, genial, worldly morality of Shakespeare; not the deep, devious, confused, but most human morality of the Bible; not a high, severe, ascetic morality; not even a sour, grim, puritanic morality.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin
Richard had long ceased to regard these matters from a strictly puritanic standpoint.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
And deep in his hell sang the Devil, and this was the strain of his song: "The ancient, outworn, puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong."
From Songs of a Sourdough by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
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