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Puritan
ˈpjʊərɪt(ə)n
Puritan definitions
noun
puritan
puritans
- a person with censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex
"my mother was a puritan about sex"
- a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship
adjective
puritan
- having or displaying censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex
"as the puritan ethic has weakened, hedonism has replaced it"
moralistic pietistic strait-laced tight-laced stuffy starchy prissy prudish puritan prim priggish Victorian schoolmarmish schoolmistressy old-maidish narrow-minded censorious sententious - relating to the Puritans
"a Puritan parliamentarian"