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Puritanical
Puritanic Pu`ri*tan"ic, Puritanical Pu`ri*tan"ic*al, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines
and practice.
2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements;
strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of
reproach or contempt.
Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels
were strictly excluded. --Macaulay.
He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil.
--Hawthorne.
Meaning of Puritanical from wikipedia
- Pynchon, the
founder of Springfield, M****achusetts,
wrote a
critique of
Puritanical Calvinism,
entitled The
Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. Published...
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Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia is the
fifth studio album by
Norwegian symphonic black metal band
Dimmu Borgir. It was
released by
Nuclear Blast Records...
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Puritanical bias
refers to the
tendency to
attribute cause of an
undesirable outcome or
wrongdoing by an
individual to a
moral deficiency or lack of self...
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following full-length
albums Spiritual Black Dimensions in 1999 and 2001's
Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, both met
critical acclaim. However,
another line-up...
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Public morality refers to
moral and
ethical standards enforced in a society, by law or
police work or
social pressure, and
applied to
public life, to the...
- the Sabbath, in
violation of
state "dry" laws and the
demands of
local puritanical clergy. Low's
compromise solution was that
saloons could stay open as...
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab,
founder of the
Wahhabi movement, a
strict puritanical form of **** Islam. This
alliance provided the
ideological impetus to...
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television series Boardwalk Empire, portra**** by
Michael Shannon. He is a
puritanical, repressed,
religious fundamentalist and
agent for the
Bureau of Prohibition...
- post.
March 26, 2008.
Retrieved September 24, 2011. "I
think there is a
puritanical wind that is blowing. I have
never seen such a lack of
separation between...
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songwriter and
performer rather than a
headline for his bi****uality, and in "
puritanical" America, "I
think it
stood in the way of so much I
wanted to do." Buckley...
