Puritan as a noun: - 1
puritan - 2
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puritan
noun
1 Puritan
A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship.
Polish: purytanin
2 puritan
Someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures.
Roget 955:
asceticism,
puritanism,
sabbatarianism†;
cynicism†,
austerity;
total abstinence;
nephalism†.
mortification,
maceration,
sackcloth and ashes,
flagellation;
penance
etc.
952;
fasting
etc.
956;
martyrdom.
ascetic;
anchoret†,
anchorite;
martyr;
Heautontimorumenos†;
hermit
etc.
(recluse)
893;
puritan,
sabbatarian†,
cynic,
sanyasi†,
yogi.
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Roget 988:
impiety;
sin
etc.
945;
irreverence;
profaneness
etc.
adj.;
profanity,
profanation;
blasphemy,
desecration,
sacrilege;
scoffing
etc.
v..
[feigned piety]
hypocrisy
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
pietism,
cant,
pious fraud;
lip devotion,
lip service,
lip reverence;
misdevotion†,
formalism,
austerity;
sanctimony,
sanctimoniousness
etc.
adj.;
pharisaism,
precisianism†;
sabbatism†,
sabbatarianism†;
odium theologicum [Lat.],
sacerdotalism†;
bigotry
etc.
(obstinacy)
606,
(prejudice)
481;
blue laws.
hardening,
backsliding,
declension,
perversion,
reprobation.
sinner
etc.
949;
scoffer,
blasphemer;
sacrilegist†;
sabbath breaker;
worldling;
hypocrite
etc.
(dissembler)
548;
Tartufe†,
Mawworm†.
bigot;
saint [Iron.];
Pharisee;
sabbatarian†,
formalist,
methodist,
puritan,
pietist†,
precisian†,
religionist,
devotee;
ranter,
fanatic,
juramentado†.
the wicked,
the evil,
the unjust,
the reprobate;
sons of men,
sons of Belial,
the wicked one;
children of darkness.
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Dutch: puritein
Polish: purytanin
3 puritan
A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum.
synonym: prude.
Roget 855:
affectation;
affectedness
etc.
adj.;
acting a part
etc.
v.;
pretense
etc.
(falsehood)
544,
(ostentation)
882;
boasting
etc.
884.
charlatanism,
quackery,
shallow profundity;
pretension,
airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism;
teratology
etc.
(altiloquence)
577.
mannerism,
simagree,
grimace.
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism,
man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism.
stiffness,
formality,
buckram;
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry,
mock modesty,
minauderie,
sentimentalism;
mauvais honte,
false shame.
affector,
performer,
actor;
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist;
grimacier;
lump of affectation,
precieuse ridicule [Fr.],
bas bleu [Fr.],
blue stocking,
poetaster;
prig;
charlatan
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
petit maitre
etc.
(fop)
854;
flatterer
etc.
935;
coquette,
prude,
puritan.
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Dutch: preuts, preut, puritein
Roget 984:
heterodoxy;
error
etc.
495;
false doctrine,
heresy,
schism;
schismaticism†,
schismaticalness;
recusancy,
backsliding,
apostasy;
atheism
etc.
(irreligion)
989†.
bigotry
etc.
(obstinacy)
606;
fanaticism,
iconoclasm;
hyperorthodoxy†,
precisianism†,
bibliolatry†,
sabbatarianism†,
puritanism;
anthropomorphism;
idolatry
etc.
991;
superstition
etc.
(credulity)
486;
dissent
etc.
489.
sectarism†,
sectarianism;
noncomformity†;
secularism;
syncretism†.
[religious sects.]
protestantism,
Arianism†,
Adventism,
Jansenism,
Stundism†,
Erastianism†,
Calvinism,
quakerism†,
methodism,
anabaptism†,
Puseyism,
tractarianism†,
ritualism,
Origenism,
Sabellianism,
Socinianism†,
Deism,
Theism,
materialism,
positivism,
latitudinarianism
etc.
High Church,
Low Church,
Broad Church,
Free Church;
ultramontanism†;
papism,
papistry;
monkery†;
papacy;
Anglicanism,
Catholicism,
Romanism;
popery,
Scarlet Lady,
Church of Rome,
Greek Church.
paganism,
heathenism,
ethicism†;
mythology;
polytheism,
ditheism†,
tritheism†;
dualism;
heathendom†.
Judaism,
Gentilism†,
Islamism,
Islam,
Mohammedanism,
Babism†,
Sufiism,
Neoplatonism,
Turcism†,
Brahminism,
Hinduism,
Buddhism,
Sabianism,
Gnosticism,
Hylotheism†,
Mormonism;
Christian Science.
heretic,
apostate,
antichrist†;
pagan,
heathen;
painim†,
paynim†;
giaour†;
gentile;
pantheist,
polytheist;
idolator.
schismatic;
sectary,
sectarian,
sectarist†;
seceder,
separatist,
recusant,
dissenter;
nonconformist,
nonjuror†.
bigot
etc.
(obstinacy)
606;
fanatic,
abdal†,
iconoclast.
latitudinarian,
Deist,
Theist,
Unitarian;
positivist,
materialist;
Homoiousian†,
Homoousian†,
limitarian†,
theosophist,
ubiquitarian†;
skeptic
etc.
989.
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
&c.;
ultramontane;
Anglican†,
Oxford School;
tractarian†,
Puseyite,
ritualist;
Puritan.
Catholic,
Roman,
Catholic,
Romanist,
papist.
Jew,
Hebrew,
Rabbinist,
Rabbist†,
Sadducee;
Babist†,
Motazilite;
Mohammedan,
Mussulman,
Moslem,
Shiah,
Sunni,
Wahabi,
Osmanli.
Brahmin†,
Brahman†;
Parsee,
Sufi,
Buddhist;
Magi,
Gymnosophist†,
fire worshiper,
Sabian,
Gnostic,
Rosicrucian
etc.
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