puritan

See also: Puritan

English

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɝɪtən/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɔːɹɪtən/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
Hyphenation: pu‧ri‧tan

puritan (plural puritans)

(usually derogatory) A puritanical person.
- 2016 August 5, Janet Street-Porter, “Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it”, in The Independent:
  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.

puritanical person

puritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)

(usually derogatory) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.
Synonyms: prude, puritanical

having very strict moral standards

puritan m (definite singular puritanen, indefinite plural puritanar, definite plural puritanane)

puritan m (plural puritani)

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	puritan	puritanul	puritani	puritanii
genitive-dative	puritan	puritanului	puritani	puritanilor
vocative	puritanule		puritanilor

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puritan

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puritan c

Declension of puritan