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Puritan: someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures; a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship

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sannyasi collapse: a Hindu religious mendicant

fakir collapse: a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

abstainer collapse: a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages; someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

procrustean collapse: of or relating to the mythical giant Procrustes or the mode of torture practiced by him

straightlaced collapse

yogi collapse: one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight

purist collapse: someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)

dervish collapse: an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements

Victorian collapse: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria; typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria; of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"

prig collapse

muscle bound collapse

Sabbatarian collapse: one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism); pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance

old maid collapse: a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid'); the loser in a game of old maid

anchorite collapse: one retired from society for religious reasons

ironclad collapse: a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor; inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"; sheathed in iron plates for protection

rockbound collapse

uncompromising collapse: not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"

Franciscan collapse: a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order; of or relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him; "Franciscan monks"

fundamentalist collapse: a supporter of fundamentalism; of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism

Communist collapse: a socialist who advocates communism; a member of the communist party; relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda"

Red collapse: red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood; a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana; red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage"; "the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears; of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

goody goody collapse

mid Victorian collapse

Maoist collapse: an advocate of Maoism; of or relating to Maoism

ironbound collapse

Jacobin collapse: a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

sans culotte collapse

anarchist collapse: an advocate of anarchism

puristic collapse

puritanical collapse: of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism

Bolshevik collapse: emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries; a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party; of or relating to Bolshevism; "Bolshevik Revolution"

Charley collapse

inexorable collapse

straitlaced collapse

hidebound collapse: stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded

Yankee collapse: an American (especially to non-Americans); an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War); used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

revolutionist collapse: a radical supporter of political or social revolution

Marxist collapse: an advocate of Marxism; following the ideas of Marx and Engels

hermit collapse: one who lives in solitude

dour collapse: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

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