puritanic
Americanadjective
-
relating to or characteristic of the Puritans or their beliefs and practices.
-
very strict or obsessive about moral and religious matters; straitlaced; puritanical.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Lilly recalled having seen the name in puritanic family sheets, which she had looked through in caf�s and confectionery shops.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
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 Roberts, Morley
Whether Greek-Orthodox St. Petersburg or Catholic Rome, Germanic-Christian Berlin or heathen Paris, puritanic London or gay Vienna, approach nearer to Babylon of old is hard to decide.
From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
