Puritan - definition, transcription
Amer.
|ˈpjʊrɪtən|
Brit.
|ˈpjʊərɪt(ə)n|
noun
- a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship (syn: puritan)
- someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures (syn: puritan)
- a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum (syn: prude, puritan)
- someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures (syn: puritan)
- a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum (syn: prude, puritan)
Extra examples
She's a puritan about sex.
...some of the town's puritans still maintain that sex education has no place in the schools...
...the great influence exerted by the Puritan divines in the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
...the common perception that our Puritan forebears procreated more out of a sense of duty than from desire...
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