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

This puritanical rhetoric is amplified for parents, and mothers in particular bear the weight of judgment when they turn to store-bought baby food rather than spending endless hours pureeing vegetables on a Sunday afternoon.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2023

Growing up, I was always tickled by this raffish personal connection to history: part of the Puritans, but not actually puritanical.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann