puritanic
— Adjective
– English
～ morally rigorous and strict; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"; "blue laws"
puritanical
— Adjective
– English
～ exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
puritanical
— Adjective
– English
～ morally rigorous and strict; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"; "blue laws"
puritanical
— Adjective
– English
～ of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
puritanically
— Adverb
– English
～ in a prudish manner; "she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste"
Puritanism
— Noun
– English
～ strictness and austerity in conduct and religion
puritanism
— Noun
– English
～ the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects)