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Puritanic

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Pu`ri`tan´ic
a.1.Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
2.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.
- Macaulay.
He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil.
- Hawthorne.
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Adj.1.puritanic - morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
puritanical, blue
nonindulgent, strict - characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint


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Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
However, as I say, I had for the time forgotten that pagan company, or, in my puritanic zeal, I might have thrown them all to be washed clean in the upland stream, whose pure waters one might fancy were fragrant from their sunny day among the ferns and the heather, fragrant to the eye, indeed, if one may so speak, with the shaken meal of the meadowsweet.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
About his material there is no disputing among people of our Puritanic tradition.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
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