Synonyms for puritanical
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pyoo r-i-tan-i-kuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌpyʊər ɪˈtæn ɪ kəl |
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Définition of puritanical
Origin :- c.1600, from Puritan + -ical. Chiefly in disparaging use. Related: Puritanically.
- adj proper, straitlaced
- They are puritanical with intelligence, and independent with a certain grace.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- After a divorce—Seth's idea of divorces were vague and Puritanical—there would be no hope.
- Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- There was in Hazlitt, however, a puritanical fervor which withstood the lure of expediency.
- Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
- I've had too much of your puritanical, psalm-singing business.
- Extract from : « Under Fire » by Charles King
- Voltaire, the least Puritanical of men, is also the least neurotic.
- Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys
- And of Mrs. Jay he thought that he knew that she was puritanical, stiff, and severe.
- Extract from : « The Vicar of Bullhampton » by Anthony Trollope
- This puritanical vein has grown with the years, as it has with Tolstoy.
- Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker
- She is a Puritanical little puss, and quite queenly, too, for a Magdalen.
- Extract from : « Rose Clark » by Fanny Fern
- I am sick of your puritanical ways, and I have resolved to change them.
- Extract from : « A Daughter of the Union » by Lucy Foster Madison
- Kit was conservative, and sprang from cautious, puritanical stock.
- Extract from : « Kit Musgrave's Luck » by Harold Bindloss
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