puritanic
 (a.)清教的;禁慾的


 Pu·ri·tan·ic 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.

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 puritanic
      adj : morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work
            ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was
            anything but puritanical in her behavior" [syn: blue(a),
             puritan, puritanical]