Puritan

1. A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries advocated strict religious discipline along with simplification of the ceremonies and creeds of the Church of England.
2. puritan One who lives in accordance with Protestant precepts, especially one who regards pleasure or luxury as sinful.

1. Of or relating to the Puritans or Puritanism.
2. puritan Characteristic of a puritan; puritanical.

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