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Meanings of
puritanic
in English
Morally rigorous and strict.
blue
puritan
puritanical
Related terms
strict
nonindulgent
Synonyms
Examples for "
blue
"
blue
puritan
puritanical
Examples for "
blue
"
1
Semihard;
blue
;
goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound.
2
A sea of
blue
state police cars stood motionless ahead of them.
3
For example, left hand to
blue
crimp, right foot to green pinch.
4
The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and
blue
.
5
The wind blows soft; the sky is
blue
;
the sun shines bright
1
And the little
puritan
of fifteen heard the voice of his God:
2
A man who had the reputation of a saint too; a
puritan
.
3
But despite its
puritan
bent, ManServants also represents a long-overdue role reversal.
4
The
puritan
soldiers destroyed the profusion of statues that decorated this church.
5
Was Zhang so anxious to maintain the communist
puritan
image of Guan?
1
Difficult, of course, for one of my naturally
puritanical
bent, but possible.
2
Many young people are attracted to Salafism, a
puritanical
branch of Islam.
3
I am sometimes inclined to be quite
puritanical
when defining the western.
4
Too much tolerance too fast can produce a
puritanical
or fascist backlash.
5
The character of the kirk was that of a democratic,
puritanical
theocracy.
Usage of
puritanic
in English
1
The rigour in England is mere
puritanic
hypocrisy, shortsightedness and racial self-esteem.
2
In this instance, the populace are more
puritanic
than the magistrate.
3
Richard had long ceased to regard these matters from a strictly
puritanic
standpoint.
4
The primitive Church was very
puritanic
concerning the Christian spirit.
5
His political zeal was a frenzy; and his religion was deeply tinged with
puritanic
gloom.
6
He had not been a
puritanic
or condemnatory person.
7
Norah had no
puritanic
traditions to her account.
8
Life is painful,
puritanic
and depressing to them.
9
His father was a wealthy wine merchant, his mother a devout woman with
puritanic
ideas of duty.
10
The whole tone was stern and
puritanic
.
11
I dislike a staid, serious,
puritanic
education, as I firmly believe that it encourages vice and hypocrisy.
12
The jealousy of
puritanic
fanaticism had persecuted these arts from the first rise of the Reformation in this country.
13
In overstrained and
puritanic
dread of idolatory, the English Church has gone lamentably far to forfeit its sacramental birthright.
14
A trifle prim and
puritanic
15
But now again, as so often before, directly it was put into words, his feeling seemed strained and
puritanic
.
16
The prim and the precise, or the exact, the homogeneous, the single, the
puritanic
,
the mathematic, the pure, the perfect.
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puritanic
Adjective
Frequent collocations
most puritanic
puritanic humbug
puritanic order
puritanic state
absolutely puritanic
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