Puritanical-(adjective)

Definition: very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.

Second page, line 22 of “There once was” by Margaret Atwood. -“Another thing. Good and wicked. Don’t you think you should transcend those puritanical judgmental moralistic epithets? I mean, so much of that is conditioning isn’t it?

This means that the first speaker should not be thinking in such a moralistic way.

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