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Definition: Puritan |
PuritanAdjective1. Morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior". Noun1. Adheres to strict religious principles; opposed to sensual pleasures. 2. A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puritan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Synonyms: PuritanSynonyms: blue(a) (adj), puritanic (adj), puritanical (adj), prude (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan; (deceiver); petit maitre; (fop); flatterer; coquette, prude, puritan. |
Asceticism | Ascetic; anchoret, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos; hermit; (recluse); puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi. |
Heterodoxy | Protestant; Huguenot; orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana, Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day Saint, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian; Gentoo, Antinomian, Swedenborgian; Adventist, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer, Curist; Familist, Jovinianist, Libadist, Quaker, Restitutionist, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker; ultramontane; Anglican, Oxford School; tractarian, Puseyite, ritualist; Puritan. |
Impiety | Bigot; saint; Pharisee; sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Puritan |
| English words defined with "puritan": blue ♦ color, colour ♦ drab ♦ ethic ♦ moral principle ♦ puritanic, puritanical ♦ sober, somber, sombre ♦ value orientation, value-system, vividness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puritan": Platonic Puritan, Public-house Signs ♦ Raul ♦ Under-current. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Puritan" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (prude, prudish, puritan, puritanic, puritanical), Romanian (hot gospeller, precisian, prude, puritan, puritanic), Swedish (Puritan). |
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Screenplays | You're quite a puritan, aren't you? (Victim; writing credit: Janet Green; John McCormick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Puritan Passions (1923) The Little Puritan (1915) A Puritan Episode (1913) Natural Born Puritan (1994) | |
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 | It includes photographs of the "Monitor Shiphouse" and USS Puritan on the building ways at the Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, New York, and an artwork of the battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. Credit: NAVY. |  | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1862, page 584-585, depicting (very inaccurately) the ship's original two-turret configuration. She was later redesigned with only one turret. Launched in 1864, Puritan was never completed. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Puritan maid sitting by a brook. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The witch hunters of the Puritan days, or, Same benighted spirit with us yet, or, The "heresy-hunters" of today. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A puritan hearthstone. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Puritan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sachem and Puritan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Str. Puritan, [G. & M. Line]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Priscilla, Puritan, and Atlantic. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A fair Puritan / E. Percy Moran. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Thomas B. Macaulay | The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Enjolras, we know, had something of the Spartan and of the Puritan. |
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Business | Osypka Madison Razel Scientific Alp K2 Eastern Medical Mallinckrodt Reckitt & Collman American Echo Edge Magnetic Resonance Renal Systems AMS Ekhoson Manan Rhomicron Angiocath Electronic Monitor Maquet Romed Angiodynamics Ethox Marin Lorca Rusch Arcomed Fagesa Marquette S & W Argus Medical Fisher & Paykel Medela Safeskin ART Foleycath Medical Systems Salter Labs Arthrex Fresenius Medical Mediland Satelec Ave Wall Stent Fukada Denshi Meditech Scrubs Ballard Gambro Medtronic Schiller Bard General Electric Mentor Seca Baxter Gibeck Merivaara Sechrist Industries Bayer Glovel Merocel Sheridan BCI International Gollands MIA Shimadzu Becton-Dickinson BD Gore-Tex Minimed Siemens Berchtold Graseby Medical Mitsubishi Skintact Beverly Gruschwitz Modul Diagram Smith+Nephew Bioland Hans Rudolf Narcosul Sony Bioset Hellige Nellcor Puritan Bennett Sunrise Medical Bioshield Hewlett Packard Neomed Svedala Industries Biotecno Hico Nidek Tarry Bird Products Corp. Hitachi Nipro Telectronics Boston Scientific Hollister Nitinol Med. Tech. Teledyne Electronics Braile Huntleigh NMI Telic B. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Puritan" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 72.94% of the time. "Puritan" is used about 170 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 72.94% | 124 | 28,785 |
| Noun (singular) | 20.59% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (common) | 0.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 170 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Puritan, PA |
Expression using "puritan": blueprenominal puritan puritanical. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "puritan": puritan-inclined. | |
Ending with "puritan": anti-puritan, catholic-puritan, non-puritan. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "puritan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | puriteins. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | puritan (prude, prudish, puritanic, puritanical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متزمت (austere, pi, prim, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, severe, stick in the mud, strict), صارم (astringent, austere, disciplinary, dour, driving, exact, extreme, fast, firm, hard, hard and fast, hardheaded, inclement, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, rugged, searching, severe, sharp, stark, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent, swingeing, tight, tough, unrelenting, violent), البوريتاني التطهري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пуритански (austere, priggish, puritanic, puritanical, round-headed, square-toed, straitlaced), пуританин (prig, square toes), пуритан (precisian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | puritánský (squeamish, straitlaced), puritán. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | puriteins. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | puritano, puritana. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاک دین . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puritaani. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | puritain (puritain, puritanical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Puritaner (puritans). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πουριτανόσ (prig, strait laced), αυστηρόσ κατά την θρησκείαν, αυστηρόσ κατά τα ήθη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | puritán (austere, puritanic, puritanical, severe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | puritano (prude, straight-laced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "ストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt), 清教' . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "ューリタン , せいきょうと. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ro-chrauee (puritanical), puritaanagh (puritanical), fer ro-chrauee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uritanpay puritano (precisian, puritanic, puritanical, square-toes, strait, straitlaced). (various references) puritan (hot gospeller, precisian, prude, puritanic). (various references) пуританский (prudish, puritanic, puritanical, straitlaced), пуританин (precisian, roundhead). (various references) puritanski (puristic, puritanic, puritanical), puritanac. (various references) puritano (bluenose, puritanic, puritanical, strait laced). (various references) puritan. (various references) ผู้เคร่งครั"ในหลักศีลธรรมจรรยา. (various references) püriten, püritan mezhebi üyesi, püritan, tutucu protestan, tutucu (conservative, dyed in the wool, fanatical, fuddy-duddy, hidebound, puritanical, sectarian, square-toed, stick in the mud, strait laced, stuffy, unprogressive, uptight, wowser), bağnaz protestan, bağnaz (bigoted, fanatical, hard-shell, illiberal, narrow minded, puritanical, rabid, sectarian, strait laced, zealous), aşırı dinci. (various references) святенник (canter, goody goody, hypocrite), пуританський (puritanic, puritanical, straitlaced), пуританин (precisian). (various references) piwritanaidd (puritanical), Piwritan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puritan": puritanical, puritanically, puritanism, puritanisms, puritans. (additional references) | |
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"Puritan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apocritan, Apurimac, eurican, jurtina, parian, parietina, Partan, Periton, Perotin, piriton, portan, prita, Pritam, prytany, Puciato, punitan, puniten, puriant, purilan, purit, puritani, Puritania, Puritano, puritas, purite, puritun, Purusha, putitan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puritan" (pronounced pyuh"rutun) |
| 5 | -r u t u n | Samaritan. |
| 4 | -u t u n | biotin, bulletin, charlatan, cosmopolitan, exoskeleton, gelatin, lovastatin, metropolitan, skeleton. |
| 3 | -t u n | actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, chieftain, clandestine, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, fatten, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, rewritten, rotten, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: nutria, turnip. | |
-2 letters: atrip, inapt, input, paint, patin, pinta, print, pruta, purin, riant, rutin, tapir, train, unapt, unrip. | |
-3 letters: airn, airt, anti, aunt, nipa, pain, pair, pant, part, pian, pina, pint, pirn, pita, prat, prau, puna, punt, puri, rain, rani, rant, rapt, ruin, runt, tain, tarn, tarp, trap, trip, tuna, turn, unai, unit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: puritans, uprating. | |
+2 letters: abruption, capturing, pasturing, purgation, rainspout, rapturing, supinator, tarpaulin, updarting, upstaring, uptearing. | |
+3 letters: abruptions, depurating, euphoriant, manuscript, outpraying, paintbrush, pancratium, parqueting, parturient, precaution, prenuptial, prudential, purgations, puritanism, pursuivant, rainspouts, reputation, resupinate, supergiant, supinators, tarpaulins, triumphant, upstarting, usurpation. | |
+4 letters: antipopular, aponeurotic, bankrupting, enrapturing, euphoriants, expurgating, expurgation, importunate, inculpatory, intercampus, manipulator, manuscripts, neuropathic, outcapering, pancratiums, parachuting, parturients, parturition, permutation, planetarium, precautions, procuration, proteinuria, puritanical, puritanisms, pursuivants, recapturing, repudiating, repudiation, reputations, septenarius, sporulating, sporulation, supergiants, supernation, suppurating, suppuration, suspiration, unaspirated, unimportant, uniparental, unpatriotic, unpractical, unprintable, unspiritual, unstrapping, upgathering, usurpations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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