puritan

See Puritan.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.tən/, /ˈpjɔː-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊ.ɹɪ.tən/, /ˈpjɜ-/

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• Hyphenation: pu‧ri‧tan

puritan (plural puritans)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

puritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)

2. (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

   • 1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 187:

     A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.

• tanpuri, train up, uptrain

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

1. (pre-2016) alternative form of puritanar

Borrowed from French puritain.

puritan m (plural puritani)

1. puritan

puritan c

1. a Puritan
2. a puritan

• puritanism
• puritansk

• puritan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• puritan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• puritan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)