(Puritan) a member of a 16th- and 17th-cent., mainly Calvinist, Protestant group in England and New England which wished to purify the Church of England of all very ceremonial worship
a person who practises or preaches a rigorous or severe moral code
Puritan adj
puritan adj
puritanical adj
Puritanism noun
puritanism noun
[late Latin puritas: see purity]