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n. One who is strict and precise in adherence to established rules, forms, or standards, especially with regard to religious observance or moral behavior.

n. A Puritan.

n. A religious purist; a Puritan.

n. Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler.

n. One who limits, or restrains.

n. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans.

Precise; punctiliously or ostentatiously observant of rules or doctrines.

Characteristic of precisians; puritanical.

n. One who adheres punctiliously to certain rules or observances; especially, one who is precise in matters of religion: often used depreciatingly with reference to the English Puritans of the seventeenth century.

""precisian" zealots held, by the governor-general's permission and under his protection, a synod at Dort, June, 1586, and endeavoured to organise the Reformed Church in accordance with their strict principles of exclusiveness."

formalist    Puritan    stickler    precious   

unmeant    mother    praxis    Etonian    alehouse-keeper