Definitions for puritans

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puritans Pu·ri·tan

Spelling: [pyoo r-i-tn]

IPA: /ˈpyʊər ɪ tn/

Puritans is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 466 anagrams from letters in puritans (ainprstu).

Definitions for puritans

noun

1. a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
2. (lowercase) a person who is strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Puritans.
2. (lowercase) of, relating to, or characteristic of a moral puritan; puritanical.

Origin of puritans

1540-50; Late Latin pūrit(ās) purity + -an

Examples for puritans

The religion and philosophy of the puritans were in this respect at one with the gospel of the frontier.

Historically, the puritans banned Christmas from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659.

But the shout set up by the puritans announced to them that their movement had been detected.

Is it because, as a lot of critics say, deep down we always have been and always will be puritans at heart?

The sanctimonious, the puritans of all stripes, and the killjoys in general raise the issue annually.

Plato, like the puritans, is too much afraid of poetic and artistic influences.

The true history of the puritans of New England is yet to be written.

But the men, not less, perhaps even more, characteristic of New England, were the puritans of our day.

On his return, he married "Lydia Tindall, of the denomination of puritans."

The puritans got modern American cuisine off to a bad start.