Puritanical is valid Scrabble Word

Is puritanical a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for PURITANICAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

of or like a puritan, also PURITANIC
having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex
Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt.
of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
exaggeratedly proper
morally rigorous and strict
of or like a puritan

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of, relating to, or characterized by a rigid morality

Words related to PURITANICAL

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Words that contain PURITANICAL

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How to use PURITANICAL in a sentence

Because food is necessary to animal life, they do not on that account take a puritanical view of it.
If I can procure you this honour you will be ready to laugh out, as I have often much ado to forbear, at the puritanical behaviour of the mother before this lady.
The reaction from the rampant wickedness of the eighteenth century drove men into strict and even puritanical courses.
They are too reserved, too lofty, too puritanical to make provision for the grosser wants of humanity.
Surely there is something a little puritanical in the prohibition.
Her fine dark hair was combed smooth on her forehead, and made to sit close, in good puritanical trim, while a long, loose, brown coat concealed her feminine proportions.
The puritanical tendency of a race can generally be discovered by a study of the personal names of the people.
Do you catch on, and call me a scamp with your Puritanical notions? Not so fast, old fellow.
A fine little creature, quite stylish, but very puritanical.
But through remote operation of the same causes, the Commons were rising fast into consequence, with a puritanical spirit of republicanism spreading rapidly amongst them.

It is possible that the influence of Sankara may have had a puritanical side which partly accounts for the degeneration of later Indian art.
This maternal care had more power to keep me within bounds than the sermons and reproaches with which the life of a young man is diversified in a puritanical home.
It was the pretext used by the more conservative and puritanical part of Roman society to vent upon him a long-standing grudge the true motives of which lay much deeper.
It would be like discussing whether Milton was more puritanical than a pig is fat.
The more he knew the Puritanical clergy, the less favor he bore to them.
It is remarkable that Raleigh was thought to lean towards the Puritanical party, notwithstanding these positions.
The pulpits, delivered over to Puritanical preachers and lecturers, whom the commons arbitrarily settled in all the considerable churches, resounded with faction and fanaticism.
An address against episcopacy was presented by twelve clergymen to the committee of religion, and pretended to be signed by many hundreds of the Puritanical persuasion.
But not until that stern puritanical father should arrive was leaving to be thought of.
Poor old Callaghan, who means well, though he has a most puritanical dread of impropriety, is worn to a shadow.
The Puritanical distinction between clergy and laity had scarcely faded in his mind.
We have changed our ideas radically since then, but some of the puritanical ideas still cling to us in our treatment of children.
We may be patriotic, yet not puritanical in our patriotism, not harsh, nor intolerant, nor contracted.
Here men of Puritan ancestry find it well to curb a puritanical instinct.
Both these Puritanical estimates of Greek deity are of course to some extent true.

Similar words containing PURITANIC without suffix al

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