noun
Origin: < LL puritas (see purity) + -an
adjective
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See Puritan in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: From Late Latin pūritās, purity (on the model of Medieval Latin Kathari, “the Pure Ones,” a third-century sect of rigorist heretics)
Origin: , from Latin pūrus, pure; see peuə- in Indo-European roots
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