Puritan Definition
Pu·ri·tan (pyo̵or′i tən)
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
- a person regarded as excessively strict in morals and religion
adjective
- of the Puritans or Puritanism
- puritanical
Puritan Related Forms
Pu′·ri·tan·ism′ noun or pu′·ri·tan·ism′
puritan Synonyms
Puritan Usage Examples
Converse of object
please: The hero visits this church, which he finds " plain enough and bare enough to please a puritan " .
Adjective modifier
- new: One Response to " The new puritans " romy Says: February 23rd, 2005 at 12:22 am the funny ( ?
- 17th: Once, the windows were full of stained glass images of Saints, but they were all destroyed, probably by 17th century puritans.
- great: On religious matters between the founder of the Friends and the great Puritan there was a deep division.
- old: The old puritan said: ' Crosses and losses are to be expected ' .
- rigid: To be considered thriller and feels that rigid puritan.
- radical: This is to emphasize their status as the allies and patrons of local cadres of godly Protestant fundamentalists; in common parlance radical puritans.
Modifies a noun
- ethic: The repression of sexuality leads to a puritan ethics.
- community: However, any association with Rome was totally unacceptable to the growing puritan community.
- disgust: Puritan disgust with whole new legs trigger the most.
- preacher: He was probably, however, the first puritan preacher in Wales.
- divine: John Brinsley, a puritan divine and educational writer, was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.
- minister: Puritan ministers visited both Savage and Butler in the condemned cells in the run up to their hangings.
Modifying Another Word
- strongly: In 1577, the year that prophesyings were suppressed by the Privy Council, the strongly puritan William Jennings was appointed vicar.
- almost: Yet David Hillman also bequeathed his sons an almost Puritan sense of duty.
- positively: Labor makes the Tories 18 years in government look positively puritan.
Noun used with modifier
century: How the 18th century puritans who furnished this place would be appalled!
Preposition: of
century: Much evidence of it survives in Suffolk, and it is almost always blamed on the puritans of a century later.
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