Puritan

puritan English Etymology en :af purity -an 1 Probably from en purity -an, because they sought to purify Church of England worship of what they perceived as Roman Catholic aspects. The capitalised form preceded the lowercase form en puritan. Pronunciation en /ˈpjʊɹɪtən/ /ˈpjɚɪtən/ GA en /ˈpjʊəɹɪtən/ /ˈpjɔːɹɪtən/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Puritan.wav US en Pu ri tan Noun A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety. Related terms en Puritanism Translations member of a particular Protestant religious sect Catalan: ca purità m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 清教徒 cing1 gaau3 tou4 Mandarin: cmn 清教徒 qīngjiàotú Czech: cs puritán m Esperanto: eo puritano French: fr puritain m Galician: gl puritano m German: de Puritaner m Hungarian: hu puritán Ido: io puritano Macedonian: mk пурита́нец m Russian: ru пурита́нин m Spanish: es puritano m Swedish: sv puritan c Turkish: tr püritan, tr püriten Adjective en puritan. en w:Michael Palin Around the World in 80 Days w:BBC Books 1989 111 https://archive.org/details/aroundworldin80d0000unse_o6f6/page/111/mode/1up 0 563 20826 0 It’s a seedy time of the night and Jacky is telling me about sailors and their needs. A man called P. C. Alexander, an ex-Indian High-Commissioner in London has cleaned up Madras. There’s a very Puritan atmosphere here now, and the seamen are not happy. ‘All ship’s crew very happy with Calcutta. Can bring many girls there. Bombay too – no problem.’ Bombay is apparently the only city in India to license prostitutes. en Melissa Stackhouse Conversations with Bigwigs: Melissa Stackhouse Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl Drink This: Wine Made Simple New York, N.Y. w:Ballantine Books 2009 chapter 5 (Chardonnay: Chic and Changeable) 121 978-0-345-51165-2 Chardonnay is very malleable, but once we get the fruit in we actually take a very Puritan approach to it. en Susan L. Popham Teaching Editing through a Feminist Theoretical Lens Suzan Flanagan; Michael J. Albers Editing in the Modern Classroom w:Routledge 2019 978-0-8153-5445-1 I learned to work from my grandfather, who held a very Puritan kind of work ethic. Derived terms en Puritandom Puritaness puritanize Puritanlike Puritanly Anagrams en ainprtu tanpuri train up uptrain en People