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Puritan /pūrˈi-tən/ noun- A person who in the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts wished to carry the reformation of the Church of England further by purifying it of ceremony
- An opponent of the Church of England on account of its retention of much of the ritual and belief of the Roman Catholics
- An opponent of the Royalists in the 17c
- (the following meanings also without cap) a person of similar views to, or in sympathy with, those of the historical Puritans
- A person strictly moral in conduct
- Slightingly, someone professing a too-strict morality
- An advocate of purity in any sense
adjective (also without cap) relating to the Puritans ORIGIN: L pūrus pure pūritanic /-tanˈik/ or puritanˈical adjective (usu derogatory) pūritanˈically adverb pūrˈitanism noun pūrˈitanize or pūrˈitanise transitive verb and intransitive verb |