Chiefly depreciative. A person who practices or who is characterized by extreme strictness or austerity in religion, morals, etc.
| 单词 | θ179135 |
| 释义 | society > morality > virtue > [noun] > conformity to high standards > excessive > one who (3) puritan1592 Chiefly depreciative. A person who practices or who is characterized by extreme strictness or austerity in religion, morals, etc. Savonarola1689 A person considered to have the qualities of Girolamo Savonarola, esp. (in early use) a zealous reformer or spiritual leader, or (now more… square-toes1771 A precise, formal, old-fashioned person; one having strict or narrow ideas of conduct. Usually qualified by old, and with initial capital. |
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