puritanic's Usage Examples:

In puritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded, that effect was such as no work of genius, though it were superior to the Iliad, to Don Quixote or to Othello, can ever produce on a mind accustomed to indulge in literary luxury.

It was doubtless a revulsion of feeling against the doctrinaires and in particular against the puritanic reign of Michel that made her turn to Chopin.

puritanical attitude than ours to the joy of hybridisation.

I 'm a puritanical Roundhead really: kill the king - spatter the blood for a Jackson Pollock.

Thus during the reign of Edward we have not only the foundations of the Anglican Church laid, but there appears the beginning of those evangelical and puritanical sects which were to become the " dissenters " of the following centuries.

The 30-year diary of an irascible, puritanical schoolteacher in a Welsh village: quite marvelous.

In the period of national poverty and depression that followed this event, a puritanical spirit came into vogue which was little in sympathy with Holberg's dramatic or satiric genius.

If you are crossing London, there is also the puritanical moralism of London Transport to contend with.

Grundy (Harry H Corbett) is a newsagent with a very puritanical outlook on life.

The net result was that a few years later the lower house of convocation only rejected by one vote a very puritanical petition against vestments and other popish dregs.

Their anti-sacerdotalism appears to have been their chief offence, for the inquisitors admit that they were puritanically careful in word and conduct, and shunned all levity.

It is quite certain that Bunyan was, at eighteen, what, in any but the most austerely puritanical circles, would have been considered as a young man of singular gravity and innocence.

This dread of pestilence, united with a puritanic hatred of plays, made the citizens do all they could to discountenance theatrical entertainments.

Synonyms:

nonindulgent, blue, puritanical, strict,

Antonyms:

indulgent, gluttonous, achromatic color, cheerful, elated,