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Puritanical, Puritanic adj.

Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.

Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; often used by way of reproach or contempt. "Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded." "He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil."

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Etymology of 'Puritanic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Puritanic" Quotes from Famous Books

... best writing are keyed to that instinct of personal discipline and civic responsibility which characterized the seventeenth century emigrants from England. These successors of Roger Ascham and Thomas Elyot and Philip Sidney were Puritanic, moralistic, practical; and with their "faith in God, faith in man and faith in work" they built an empire. Lowell's own mind, like Franklin's, like Lincoln's, had a shrewd sense of what concerns the common interests of all. The inscription beneath his bust on the exterior of Massachusetts ...

— Modern American Prose Selections • Various

... sadly confessed, made but few friends. Their uncle's reasonable prejudices extended to morning visits, which he called a frivolous waste of time; and he had a similar dislike to evening parties; not on account of a puritanic disapproval of dancing, or of young people of different sexes meeting and having opportunities of getting acquainted with each other, but the hours were so irrational, and the conventional dress so unbecoming and dangerous to health, that he had prohibited Jane and Elsie from accepting the invitations ...

— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence

... and woods, the days and nights, the changing seasons, in which another great nature poet of ours declares they "speak in various language." But nothing could be farther from the didactic mood in which "communion with the various forms" of nature casts the Puritanic soul of Bryant, than the mood in which this German-blooded, Kentucky-born poet, who keeps throughout his song the sense of a perpetual and inalienable youth, with a spirit as pagan as that which breathes from ...

— Poems • Madison Cawein

... the Old Puritanic Sunday Laws having fallen into "innocuous desuetude," an attempt to give them a partial enforcement in Boston compelled a little legislative action and the result was what might have been expected in a State in which religious opinions are allowed to ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various

... liked, he was partly born into, and partly he created it. The child of a race which came from England, robust and Puritanic, he had in his veins the blood of judges—of those judges who burned witches and persecuted Quakers. His fancy is as much influenced by the old fanciful traditions of Providence, of Witchcraft, of haunting Indian magic, as Scott's ...

— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang

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