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Meanings of martinet in inglês

Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms.

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        Examples for "moralist"
        Examples for "moralist"
        1
        This exactly confirms the judicious observation of the excellent moralist and poet:
        The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 / ...
        2
        This question, too, the church, the state and the moralist must answer.
        Woman and the New Race
        3
        He is spiritually hard, hates the sap-head, the agitator, the simple-hearted moralist.
        Children of the Market Place
        4
        The letters also reveal that he has always been a covert moralist.
        The Irish Times
        5
        So said Prosper galloping to Prosper on his feet, the late moralist.
        The Forest Lovers
        1
        She was a good disciplinarian; she organised the whole thing remarkably well.
        Agahta christie: an autobiography
        2
        She was always in motion, a whirlwind of energy, the family disciplinarian.
        Hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia
        3
        The Lieutenant-Governor at that time was General Peter Hunter a rigid disciplinarian.
        The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
        4
        Her prim boast and pride was that she was a strict disciplinarian.
        Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
        5
        Your mother is not so good a disciplinarian as I could wish.
        Holiday Stories for Young People
        Usage of martinet in inglês
        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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