Puritanic: alternatives and connections

Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and wo…

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One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and wo…

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Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.