adjective

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

I found this word on page 70 of There Was Once, towards the bottom of the page.

” Another thing. Good and wicked. Dont you think you should transcend those puritanical judgemental moralistic epithets? I mean, so much of that is conditioning, isnt it?”

I understand this passage alot better becuase I now know that the judgment was religious. It was nice to look up the word and then read the whole passage over again haveing a better knowledge of the word. Being abel to understand the word in the context of the text is nice.