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.
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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
The puritanic spirit of the anti-dramatists, which sometimes divided the councils of the queen, had lodged among the honest wardmotes.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Many hopes turned to the chief of his staff, Rossel, a young Radical, twenty-eight years old, self-restrained, puritanic, who was sowing his revolutionary wild oats.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
The poem is a living presentment of the undiluted, puritanic doctrine of the Auld Light party, to whom Calvinism meant only a belief in hell and an assurance of their own election.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
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