Definition of Puritanical

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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

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
Tom Selleck

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
Kate Millett

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

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
Joe Mantegna

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
Lord Melbourne

Puritanical Translations

puritanical in German is puritanisch, puritanische
puritanical in Spanish is puritano

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