Definitions
a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
Word origin
Probably from 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 puritan.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.”
“Chardonnay is very malleable, but once we get the fruit in we actually take a very Puritan approach to it.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Strict moralist”7 letters
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