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puritanical

[ pyoor-i-tan-i-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
  2. Sometimes Puritanical. of, relating to, or characteristic of Puritans or Puritanism.


puritanical

/ 藢辫箩蕣蓹谤瑟藞迟忙苍瑟办蓹濒 /

adjective

  1. derogatory.
    strict in moral or religious outlook, esp in shunning sensual pleasures
  2. sometimes capital of or relating to a puritan or the Puritans
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of puritanical1

First recorded in 1600鈥10; Puritan + -ical
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Then there's the "hustle culture" guys, who instead insist that puritanical self-deprivation is the key to masculinity: strict diets, elaborate workouts, overtime schedules that leave no time for a social life.

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New York and New England went on to become competing centers of power and ideology: one pluralistic and globally-minded; the other moralistic, monocultural and, well, puritanical.

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As Katharine Hepburn said in the movie, he was kind of puritanical, because those where the times back then.

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Before each performance, the scene is set by a narrator who speaks in a prim, puritanical accent reminiscent of a bygone era.

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One expert who analysed Edwards said he grew up in a puritanical but hypocritical environment with a father described in court as 鈥渕onstrous鈥.

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