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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She is very puritanic in some of her notions.
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It was then that America for the first time gave indications of possessing a proud puritanic spirit that would not brook oppression.
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Generally speaking, although not given to excesses, they show no puritanic disposition about drink and are lavish spenders for luxuries.
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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.
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It is doubtless the invectives of the Fathers which have been the true origin of the puritanic denouncement against “stage-plays” and “play-goers.”
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