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Martinet : (noun)
1: someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
[syn: disciplinarian, moralist]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Martinet : \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [So called from an officer of that
name in the French army under Louis XIV. Cf. Martin the
bird, Martlet.]
In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general,
one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of
discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word
is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Martinet : \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.)
The martin.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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