Crossword clues for puritanical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puritanic \Pu`ri*tan"ic\, Puritanical \Pu`ri*tan"ic*al\, a.
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.
--Macaulay.He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil.
--Hawthorne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Puritan + -ical. Chiefly in disparaging use. Related: Puritanically.
Wiktionary
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. n. One who holds puritanical attitudes.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" [syn: blue(a), puritan, puritanic]
Usage examples of "puritanical".
Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.
British fans put on displays of public affection that the staid, puritanical American attendees beheld in bemused astonishment.
Just as the leopard cannot change his spots, so could I not overnight and by the simple pronouncing of words and the exchanging of rings before witnesses convert myself to a circumspect and drearily puritanical sobersides.
The case of Udal, a Puritanical clergyman, seems singular even in those arbitrary times.
A few minutes after she entered with her puritanical mother, who told me I must not be surprised to see her daughter better dressed, as she was going to be married in a few days.
This house of commons, which, like all the preceding, during the reigns of James and Charles, and even of Elizabeth, was much governed by the Puritanical party, thought that they could not better serve their cause than by branding and punishing the Arminian sect, which, introducing an innovation in the church, were the least favored and least powerful of all their antagonists.
Peremptory, plain spoken, puritanical in her concepts -of honour and truth, in no way did Bids resemble the servile, cozening girls he had known.
In the Chibcha legends, Bochica wandered through the countryside teaching not only useful crafts but a puritanical attitude toward life.
Basilicon Doron, written while he was in Scotland, that the republican ideas of the origin of power from the people, were at that time esteemed Puritanical novelties.
Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.
Her dress was a puritanical grey one with a broad white linen collar: over it she was wearing a plain brown holland apron, like those which the housemaids wore when cleaning.
The cautious, even puritanical facet of one side of the Fischel nature, he supposed, had been answerable for this discretion: and although many a time it had irked him with its inconvenience, he had adhered to it with a strictness he considered his only remaining virtue.
He was a ritual tea smoker and very puritanical about junk the way some teaheads are.
The Descenders accuse the Ascenders of being repressive, puritanical, life-denying, sex-denying, earth-destroying, and body-ignoring.
It's one of the more puritanical and bass-ackwards planets in this quadrant of the galaxy.