PURITANICAL vs PURITAN: NOUN
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- Adheres to strict religious principles; opposed to sensual pleasures
- A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
- : a puritanical person
- A person who is very strict or austere in religious practice or moral outlook, especially someone who regards pleasure or luxury as sinful.
- One who is very strict and serious in his religious life, or who pretends to great purity of life: first used about 1564, and applied to certain Anabaptists: frequently a term of contempt.
- [capitalized] One of a class of Protestants which arose in England in the sixteenth century.
- Synonyms Puritan, Pilgrim. Careful distinction should be made between the Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers, who settled at Plymouth in 1620, and the Puritans, who in 1628–30 founded the colony of Massachusetts Bay at Salem and Boston.
- One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.
- One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.
- A member of a particular Protestant religious sect.
- Someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
- A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 1500s and 1600s advocated strict religious discipline along with simplification of the ceremonies and creeds of the Church of England.
PURITANICAL vs PURITAN: ADJECTIVE
- Of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
- Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; — often used by way of reproach or contempt.
- Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Puritans.
- Rigorous in religious observance; marked by stern morality.
- Exaggeratedly proper
- Morally rigorous and strict
- : acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex
- Of or relating to the Puritans or Puritanism.
- Characteristic of a puritan; puritanical.
- Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.
- Morally rigorous and strict
PURITANICAL vs PURITAN: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Same as puritanic.
- Synonyms Puritan, Puritanic. Puritanic (or puritanical) is now generally used in a depreciative sense; Puritan in a commendatory or a neutral sense.
- [capitalized] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Puritans.
PURITANICAL vs PURITAN: RELATED WORDS
- Moralistic, Tight laced, Square toed, Puritanic, Nonindulgent, Blue, Proper, Victorian, Prim, Straightlaced, Prissy, Straitlaced, Priggish, Prudish, Puritan
- Nonconformist, Moralistic, Moralist, Pietism, Prudery, Pietistic, Popery, Prudish, Calvinist, Puritanism, Puritanic, Nonindulgent, Blue, Prude, Puritanical
PURITANICAL vs PURITAN: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Moralistic, Tight laced, Square toed, Puritanic, Nonindulgent, Blue, Proper, Victorian, Prim, Straightlaced, Prissy, Straitlaced, Priggish, Prudish, Puritan
- Nonconformist, Moralistic, Moralist, Pietism, Prudery, Pietistic, Popery, Prudish, Calvinist, Puritanism, Puritanic, Nonindulgent, Blue, Prude, Puritanical
PURITANICAL vs PURITAN: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- There is need for a practical, problem-solving approach, not these puritanical moral expressions of outrage.
- She believed in predestination, a very angry God, was puritanical to the point of OCD.
- Of course, because it was mainstream art promoting libidinous pleasure, a puritanical outcry followed.
- This Puritanical belief in community, once threatened, is what led him to rebel.
- Pearl, which shows the perceived danger of female sexuality in a puritanical society.
- Costumes and music are also low-keyed, in keeping with the Puritanical lifestyle.
- With reformed theology comes a puritanical passion to purify the church.
- Puritanical settlers as a foil to the concept of piracy.
- We have a puritanical attitude in this country to fireworks.
- The Puritans were down right Puritanical about Sunday.
- Peter Oliver: Historical View of the Puritan Commonwealth.
- Puritan Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay to the south.
- Jones and others, who developed a Puritan Conference.
- United States, a society with Calvinist and Puritan cultural foundations, conducts war and its military legal system in a Puritan way.
- Puritan interests to vilify the High Commission as much as possible in the process of speaking for his Puritan client.
- Puritan England might accept it or not; but Puritan England was, in real truth, saved from suicide thereby!
- The library focuses on Puritan and Reformed theology, with its centerpiece being the Puritan Research Center.
- Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts.
- Puritan judge and inflicting punishments on those who did not strictly follow Puritan tenets.
- Puritan ancestors, focused on the dark side of Puritan society in his fiction.
PURITANICAL vs PURITAN: QUESTIONS
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