- 1清教徒式的（帶貶義，尤指對道德、性極嚴）
If you call a person, a rule, or a place puritanical, you mean they are very strict about moral matters, especially sex, and you are showing you do not like that strictness. The word is almost always . It comes from the Puritans, a Protestant group known for plain, tight living, but today you can say it about a school, a government, or a parent without talking about that history. Though actually, people sometimes stretch it to mean only “no fun” or “too tight,” even when sex is not the issue. In careful use, the moral — often sexual — tightness is the centre, and the speaker is rolling their eyes.
組成puritanic + -al（變成形容詞）。puritanic itself is from Puritan.
同家族的字
- Puritanthe historical group, and the noun this attitude is named after
- puritanismthe noun for the strict attitude
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
puritanicaladj/pjʊəɹ.ɪˈtæn.ɪ.kəl/
- 1
Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
- The host proposed divers puritanical fancies—nay, once hinted at a head of Cromwell himself; but the hostess overruled all these proposals, and stood firm by the Sun.
- 2
Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid (often used by way of reproach or contempt).
- Mrs. Barrymore is of interest to me. She is a heavy, solid person, very limited, intensely respectable, and inclined to be puritanical. You could hardly conceive a less emotional subject. Yet I have told you how, on the first night here, I heard her sobbing bitterly, and since then I have more than once observed traces of tears upon her face. Some deep sorrow gnaws ever at her heart. Sometimes I wonder if she has a guilty memory which haunts her, and sometimes I suspect Barrymore of being a domestic tyrant.
- Exogamy […] has few or none of the quaint superstitions which lend a certain picturesque charm to totemism. It is, so to say, a stern Puritanical institution. Its rigid logic, its complex rules, its elaborate terminology, its labyrinthine systems of relationship, it presents an aspect somewhat hard and repellant.
puritanicalnoun/pjʊəɹ.ɪˈtæn.ɪ.kəl/
- 1
One who holds puritanical attitudes.
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