different between puritanical vs puritanism

English

Etymology

puritanic +? -al

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pj???.??tæn.?.k?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pj?.??tæn.?.kl?/

Adjective

puritanical (comparative more puritanical, superlative most puritanical)

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).

Quotations

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.

Translations

Noun

puritanical (plural puritanicals)

1. One who holds puritanical attitudes.

Anagrams

• unpiratical

English

Noun

puritanism (countable and uncountable, plural puritanisms)

1. (theology) Strict and austere religious conduct.
2. Extreme strictness regarding moral scruples.
   • 2016 October 17, Vicky Spratt, "Work Hard, Work Hard:Meet The Neo-Puritans", Graziadaily.co[1]

     Some have argued that the closure of Fabric is symptomatic of a wider shift towards a new puritanism in Britian: a culture in which fun, hedonism and cultural experimentation are no longer valued.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French puritanisme

Noun

puritanism n (uncountable)

1. Puritanism

Declension