precisian
Americannoun
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a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
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one of the English Puritans of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Her mouth was scarlet, all curves, and her complexion was famous for its brilliancy; only a precisian would have objected that she possessed the Valois nose, long and thin and somewhat unduly overhanging the mouth.
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
His public career shows more of the doctrinaire and precisian than can be found in any other one of these.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
He is no precisian in attire; but by all accounts, he was never so ill-inspired as on that tramp; having set forth indeed, upon a moment's notice, from the most unfashionable spot in Europe, Barbizon.
From Across the Plains by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The man, affrighted at this apparition, Upon recovery grew a great precisian.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
‘I am afraid of it,’ said Jean-Marie: ‘my stomach—’ ‘Take it or leave it,’ interrupted Desprez fiercely; ‘but understand it once for all—there is nothing so contemptible as a precisian.’
From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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