puritanical
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The setting is still a Swiss alpine hamlet, but the villagers are all members of some puritanical sect and its sleepwalking heroine, Amina, has longings that transcend its limits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
The Jesus Army church recruited thousands of people to live in close-knit, puritanical communities in Northamptonshire, London and the Midlands.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025
As Katharine Hepburn said in the movie, he was kind of puritanical, because those where the times back then.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2024
Before each performance, the scene is set by a narrator who speaks in a prim, puritanical accent reminiscent of a bygone era.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024
Into the doors and into the soft lights I go, silently, past the rows of puritanical benches straight and torturous, finding that to which I am assigned and bending my body to its agony.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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