Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: puritan
IPA transcription: [pj'ʊɹətən]
Pronunciations of puritan
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: prude, puritan
    Meaning: a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
  • Synonyms: puritan
    Meaning: someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
  • Synonyms: Puritan
    Meaning: 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
Usage examples
  • Then the old Puritan died.
  • Though a native of Rhode Island, and of Puritan ancestry, he was quite Western in appearance.
  • But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
  • Since I have announced myself a farmer and a puritan, let me here list the saloon evils not yet recorded in this chapter.
  • But, in truth, the scrupulosity of the Puritan was not that sort of scrupulosity which the Apostle had commanded believers to respect.
  • It is often said that the Civil War was in one sense a repetition of the old struggle between the Puritan and the Cavalier; but Puritan and Cavalier types were common to the two armies.
  • Surrounded by the comforts of middle-class respectability, and profoundly oppressed, even in his youth, by the Puritan ideals of the household, he sometimes experienced a sense of suffocation.
  • He would never read it now; or perhaps he should read it in memory of her, of her whom yesterday he had parted with on the hills--her little Puritan look, her external girlishness, her golden brown hair, and the sudden laugh so characteristic of her....
  • This class included now Irish who revolted against British rule in Ireland; now Cavaliers who championed the king against the Puritan revolutionists; Puritans, in turn, dispatched after the monarchy was restored; and Scotch and English subjects in general who joined in political uprisings against the king.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Benjamin Franklin, License CC BY-SA 4.0