Crossword-Solution: PURITANICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puritanical | a. | Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice. |
| Puritanical | a. | Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PURITANICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Exageratedly proper | 1 answer |
| Morally rigorous and strict | 1 answer |
| Rigidly moral | 1 answer |
| Exaggeratedly proper | 2 answers |
| of or like a puritan | 2 answers |
| Strait-laced | 15 answers |
| prideful | 17 answers |
| puritanic | 17 answers |
| puffed up | 24 answers |
| orthodox | 58 answers |
| prudish | 61 answers |
| Positive | 77 answers |
| Pretentious | 77 answers |
| Primitive | 82 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with PURITANICAL (5)
Although the peculiar doctrines and puritanical practices of the Muslims prevented many from joining the movement, the number of its sympathizers grew rapidly.
The dining-room windows of all the houses threw bright patches on the snow of the side-yards; the windows of other rooms, except those of the kitchens, were dark, for the rule of the place was Puritanical in thrift, as in all things; and the good housekeepers disputed every record of the meters with unhappy gas-collectors.
Wallace was not fond of music; "it had been knocked out of him on the farm up in Vermont, when he was a boy," he would apologetically explain, and besides he had the old puritanical abhorrence of stage people--putting them all in one class--as puppets who danced for played or talked for an idle and unthinking public.
The other guests affirmed that Colonel Joliffe's black puritanical scowl threw a shadow round about him; although in spite of his sombre influence their gayety continued to blaze higher, like--(an ominous comparison)--the flickering brilliancy of a lamp which has but a little while to burn.
Might it not compromise her honor? and later on might it not furnish venomous Madame de Fondege with an opportunity to exercise her slanderous tongue? Thus the puritanical old lady had come to fetch Marguerite, so that whenever occasion required she might be able to say: “I was there!” As for Marguerite, after the trials of the day, she yielded without reserve to the feeling of rest and happiness that now filled her heart.
Quotes with PURITANICAL (3)
There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs of the Puritans. Puritanical in that the point becomes the demonstration of one's own virtue rather than the realization of results. And puritanical because the somber pleasure of condemning things is the most enduring part of that legacy, along with the sense of personal superiority that comes from pleasure denied. The bleakness of…
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.
I think we’re romantic people in some ways, but when it comes to relationships it’s not a question of ‘Can you trust another human being?’, so much as a question of trusting yourself. The animalistic nature of man seems to mean that you’re bound to find another people physically attractive. And there’s something dishonest about shutting those feelings off - it seems puritanical to deny yourself that. The idea of sin is still so widely pervading.
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (2023).