PURITAN
\pjˈʊɹɪtən], \pjˈʊɹɪtən], \p_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_ɪ_t_ə_n]\
Definitions of PURITAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.
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One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.
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Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.
By Oddity Software
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One who is very strict in his religious life: Puritan, one who in the 16th and 17th centuries insisted upon having simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law.
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Pertaining to the Puritans or their doctrine or practice.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pertaining to the Puritans; scrupulously rigid in morals. Puritanic; Puritanical.
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One of a sect of English Protestants (1559) who advocated popular rights and opposed ritualism and all laxity of morals.
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One of the Pilgrim setlers of New England.
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Puritanism.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. A protestant reformer diverging further from the Church of Rome than did the authors of the articles of the Church of England ;-a dissenter from the Church of England in the times of Elizabeth and the Stuarts-classed as ecclesiastical puritans, who dissented from the rites, organization, and discipline of the church ; doctrinal puritans, who dissented from its creed, articles, and teaching ; and political puritans, who advocated the rights of civil and political freedom in opposition to the so-called divine right of kings and rulers ;-a roundhead ; a whig ;-one strict and severe in moral duty, religious faith and practice ; a godly and devout man ;-in a bad sense, a canting hypocrite ; strait-laced, formal professor of piety, &c.
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