puritanical
/pjɚ.ɪˈtæn.ɪ.kl̩/ noun C2- One who holds puritanical attitudes.
Plural puritanicals
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She is a heavy, solid person, very limited, intensely respectable, and inclined to be puritanical.
For example, look at the puritanical procureur, who has just lost his daughter, and in fact nearly all his family, in so singular a manner; Morcerf dishonored and dead; and then myself covered with ridicule through the villany of Benedetto; besides——”
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