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Meanings of puritanical in inglês

Exaggeratedly proper.

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      Morally rigorous and strict.

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            Abstainer.

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                  Examples for "abstainer"
                  Examples for "abstainer"
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                  Again we had the bottle between us, but Reverdy was an abstainer.
                  Children of the Market Place
                  2
                  My experience, since I became a total abstainer, has been the opposite.
                  Study and Stimulants / Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics ...
                  3
                  Still, the Judge, though he hated noisy revellers, was no total abstainer.
                  Customs and Fashions in Old New England
                  4
                  The sight of the ribbon induces the curious to offer the abstainer drink.
                  The Vultures
                  5
                  The Sikh drinks what he will; the Pathan is an abstainer.
                  The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
                  Usage of puritanical in inglês
                  1
                  Difficult, of course, for one of my naturally puritanical bent, but possible.
                  Ashes Of Victory
                  2
                  Many young people are attracted to Salafism, a puritanical branch of Islam.
                  Reuters
                  3
                  I am sometimes inclined to be quite puritanical when defining the western.
                  The Irish Times
                  4
                  Too much tolerance too fast can produce a puritanical or fascist backlash.
                  Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
                  5
                  The character of the kirk was that of a democratic, puritanical theocracy.
                  The Age of the Reformation
                  6
                  Maybe, we move a little too quickly to label the Americans puritanical.
                  The Irish Times
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                  God's not being prudish or puritanical in forbidding sex outside of marriage.
                  The myth of a christian religion: losing your religion for the b...
                  8
                  Wonder where she got her ideas in that cramped, puritanical little place?
                  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
                  9
                  Chicago, the musical, has a bitter, puritanical feel beneath its glossy surface.
                  The Guardian
                  10
                  Now listen to reason, my too-good child, and don't be so puritanical.
                  Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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                  He'd always struck her as a bit too politically puritanical, however.
                  In Enemy Hands
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                  His view is both puritanical and tormented: youthful idealism often is.
                  The Guardian
                  13
                  It seemed to me to be a severe and puritanical point of view.
                  Agahta christie: an autobiography
                  14
                  They're following the example of our puritanical cousins in the US.
                  The Guardian
                  15
                  Roy had always taken an intolerant and puritanical view of pigeons.
                  Junky
                  16
                  More than a few puritanical American journalists have been pressing him about it.
                  The Irish Times
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