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In some senses, puritan is marked as derogatory. Watch for register when choosing this word.
puritan
UK /ˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.tən/ US /ˈpjʊ.ɹɪ.tən/
noun 2adj 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
based, kind, shy, unintellectual
VERB + PURITAN
held, obsessed, take, total
PURITAN + NOUN
i'm, morality
PREP.
on, with
ADV.
such
Definitions
noun
1
A puritanical person.
These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
adj
1
Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.
A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.
noun
1
A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Sev
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A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.
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It’s a seedy time of the night and Jacky is telling me about sailors and their needs. A man called P. C. Alexander, an ex-Indian High-Commissioner in London has cleaned up Madras. There’s a very Purit
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Chardonnay is very malleable, but once we get the fruit in we actually take a very Puritan approach to it.
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I learned to work from my grandfather, who held a very Puritan kind of work ethic.
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Tom is a puritan.
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