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puritan
/ˈpjʊ.ɹɪ.tən/
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What does puritan mean?
noun
- A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.
adjective
- Alternative letter-case form of puritan.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (derogatory) A puritanical person.
adjective
- (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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A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle.
Brought up among ancient customs and in picturesque cities, he yet found plenty of local color in the little Puritan metropolis.
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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.
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody-goodness won't chime.
Probably the word “education” will some day seem honestly as old and objectless as the word “justification” now seems in a Puritan folio.