puritanical 的定义
- very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Puritans or Puritanism.
puritanical 近义词
proper, straitlaced
更多puritanical例句
- After the complete failure and repeal of alcohol prohibition in 1933, America’s puritanical conservatives and government agencies set their sights on drugs.
- His distaste derives from a basic confusion in the position of the puritanical prescriptivist.
- Pope Paul VI and the Church at that time could be forgiven for puritanical idealism.
- So, people sped by the models less out of puritanical deference to the naked bodies, but to keep up their steely reputations.
- Maybe not such a huge problem for the puritanical but sometime very practical mullahs.
- Saudi society and government are intricately intertwined with a puritanical flavor of Islam, Wahhabism.
- The puritanical party was by far the fewer in numbers, for which two excellent reasons might be given.
- But at the time about which we are writing there was in Boston a distinguished family of puritanical ministers named Mather.
- His preaching was plain, scriptural, and experimental, in the good old puritanical strain.
- In contrast to his predecessor he connived at some irregularities of discipline in the Puritanical clergy.
- There was in society, though it was not strait-laced or puritanical, a general standard of "good form."