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(puritans) 1. You describe someone as a puritan when they live according to strict moral or religious principles, especially when they disapprove of physical pleasures. Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan... N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval 2. Puritan attitudes are based on strict moral or religious principles and often involve disapproval of physical pleasures. Paul was someone who certainly had a puritan streak in him. ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval PURITAN (Puritans) The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who lived in a very strict and religious way. N-COUNT
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I. noun Etymology: probably from Late Latin puritas purity Date: circa 1567 1. capitalized a member of a 16th and 17th century Protestant group in England and New England opposing as unscriptural the ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England 2. one who practices or preaches a more rigorous or professedly purer moral code than that which prevails II. adjective Usage: often capitalized Date: 1581 of or relating to ~s, the Puritans, or ~ism PURITANICAL adjective Date: 1604 1. of, relating to, or characterized by a rigid morality 2. puritan • ~ly adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. 1 (Puritan) hist. a member of a group of English Protestants who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship. 2 a purist member of any party. 3 a person practising or affecting extreme strictness in religion or morals. --adj. 1 hist. of or relating to the Puritans. 2 scrupulous and austere in religion or morals. Derivatives puritanism n. Etymology: LL puritas (as PURITY) after earlier Catharan (as CATHAR) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. ист. пуританин 2. (часто puritan) сторонник чрезвычайно строгого образа жизни, пуританин 3. (puritan) святоша 4. пуританский ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 someone who has very strict moral standards and thinks that pleasure is unnecessary or wrong 2 Puritan a member of a Protestant religious group in the 16th and 17th centuries, who wanted to make religion simpler - puritan also Puritan adj (a Puritan background | puritan beliefs) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1564, "opponent of Anglican hierarchy," later applied opprubriously to "person in Church of England who seeks further reformation" (1571), probably from purity. After c.1592, applied to anyone deemed overly strict in matters of religion and morals. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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