Definition of "puritan" [puritan]

• : a puritanical person (noun)
• : acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex (adjective)

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• "According to this doctrine, which I call the puritan heresy, the duality resolves itself into a struggle between the spirit and the flesh."
• "Doubtless it will reach your father's house ere long, if it be not, as is more likely, already there, for it is the vile work of one they call a puritan, though where even the writer can vainly imagine the purity of such work to lie, let the pamphlet itself raise the question."
• "The practical vs. the puritan is a choice that cuts to the heart of all politics."