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martinet

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mar·ti·net  (märtn-t)
n.
1. A rigid military disciplinarian.
2. One who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules.
[After Jean Martinet (died 1672), French army officer.]
martinet
Noun
a person who maintains strict discipline [after General Martinet, drillmaster under Louis XIV]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.martinet - someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
disciplinarian, moralist
authoritarian, dictator - a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"
stickler - someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"


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Perkins, martinet though he was, would hardly, I think, have inflicted such a punishment on Cecily, who was a favourite of his, had he known the real nature of that luckless missive.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
A stiff commissariat officer of sixty, famous as a martinet, had then become enamoured of the gravity with which she drove the proprieties four-in-hand through the cathedral town society, and had solicited to be taken beside her on the box of the cool coach of ceremony to which that team was harnessed.
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