puritan
see also: Puritan
Pronunciation Noun
Puritan
Pronunciation Noun
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see also: Puritan
Pronunciation Noun
puritan (plural puritans)
- (often, disapproving) a puritanical person
- 2016 5 August, Janet Street-Porter, "Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it ↗", 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.
- 2016 5 August, Janet Street-Porter, "Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it ↗", The Independent.
- Italian: puritano
- Russian: пурита́нин
- Spanish: puritano
puritan
- (often, disapproving) acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex
- Synonyms: prude, puritanical
- French: puritain
- German: puritanisch
- Italian: puritano
- Russian: пурита́нский
- Spanish: puritano
Puritan
Pronunciation Noun
puritan (plural puritans)
- A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.
- German: Puritaner
- Russian: пурита́нин
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