Definition of Puritanical
Puritanical
Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt.
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Puritanical Quotations
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
Mark Ruffalo
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
Tom Selleck
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
Joe Mantegna
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
Lord Melbourne
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
Kate Millett
Puritanical Translations
puritanical in German is puritanisch, puritanische
puritanical in Spanish is puritano
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