Puritan Definition

pyo͝orĭ-tn
noun
Any member of a Protestant group in England and the American colonies that in the 16th and 17th cent. wanted to make the Church of England simpler in its services and stricter about morals.
Webster's New World
A person regarded as excessively strict in morals and religion.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Of the Puritans or Puritanism.
Webster's New World
Characteristic of a puritan; puritanical.
American Heritage

Puritanical.

Webster's New World

(often disapproving): acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex.

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Other Word Forms of Puritan

Noun

Singular:
Puritan
Plural:
puritans

Origin of Puritan

  • From Late Latin pūritās purity (on the model of Medieval Latin Kathari “the Pure Ones,” a third-century sect of rigorist heretics) from Latin pūrus pure peuə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Puritan Sentence Examples

  • As a political adviser of the king Williams consistently counselled moderation and compromise between the unqualified assertion of the royal prerogative and the puritan views of popular liberties which were.

  • John Penry, the Puritan martyr, was born at Cefn-brith in this parish.

  • Later the place was abandoned, and in 1634 a Puritan settlement was made here.

  • While he maintained the puritan doctrines as a whole, the special point of his attack was the Episcopacy.

  • His family seems to have been strongly Puritan and was related to many of those Buckinghamshire families who were prominent in the parliamentary party.

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