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puritan

/ˈpjʊ.ɹɪ.tən/

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What does puritan mean?

noun

  1. A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.

adjective

  1. Alternative letter-case form of puritan.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. (derogatory) A puritanical person.

adjective

  1. (derogatory) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈpjʊ.ɹɪ.tən/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈpjɚɪtən/
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A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle.
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
Brought up among ancient customs and in picturesque cities, he yet found plenty of local color in the little Puritan metropolis.
Henry JamesThe EuropeansProject Gutenberg ebook #179
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Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterProject Gutenberg ebook #33
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody-goodness won't chime.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheBeyond Good and EvilTranslated by Helen ZimmernProject Gutenberg ebook #4363
Probably the word “education” will some day seem honestly as old and objectless as the word “justification” now seems in a Puritan folio.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonWhat's Wrong with the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #1717