puritan

CEFRB2

/ˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.tən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who follows strict moral or religious rules.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.

Examples

  • Jerome won't have sex with you, he's a total puritan.

  • Tom is a puritan.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • /ˈpjɔː-/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.

  2. A puritanical person.

More examples

In context

  • A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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The strict blank believed that all forms of entertainment, like dancing and theater, were sinful.

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Origin

noun

See Puritan.