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Meanings of martinet in English

Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms.

Usage of martinet in English
1
He was a martinet; he knew it; he gloried on the distinction.
South Wind
2
The requisite discipline is kept up, but not in the martinet style.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
3
And Miss Blink the mild is changed for Lady Baldock the martinet.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
4
The colonel was something of a martinet, but he was justice incarnate.
The Making Of A Novelist / An Experiment In Autobiography
5
He was a perfect martinet; a prim, precise, black-stock'd, military, Miss Nancy.
Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
6
She, perceived too clearly the martinet in him and the rebel in Cicely.
Missing
7
Added to the punctilio of the martinet was the rigor of the moralist.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 / A Magazine...
8
He was a religious, upright martinet, with stern ideas of right and wrong.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
9
She had been a great martinet in the days of their mutual nursery.
A Damsel in Distress
10
He determined to be a martinet with the men in ranks under him.
Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point / Or, Finding the Glor...
11
He had martinet written on every square foot of his figure.
The Uninhabited House
12
But though a martinet as an abbot, personally he was humble and mild.
A Wanderer in Florence
13
He was a good deal of a martinet, but he was justice incarnate.
Recollections / With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a n...
14
Edward Braddock was a veteran soldier, a skilled disciplinarian, and a rigid martinet.
George Washington, Volume I
15
Vizcarra, though a dandy himself, was no martinet with his men.
The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
16
How could he have done such a thing-hethe martinet of business caution?
The Tyranny of Weakness
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