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Meanings of puritan in English

Portuguese
pudico
Catalan
melindrós

A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum.

pudico

Blue.

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Examples for "prude"
1
Although I was no prude, I recoiled from the thought of it.
The Law and the Lady
2
The whole time he'd thought she was a prude, she wrote porn.
See Jane Score
3
But you will seek in her a mistress, and find a prude.
The Works of Frederick Schiller
4
The little prude's son is fair; so was his father-fairand stupid.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
5
But even the English teacher-whowas a prude-neverscolded her for it.
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island; Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box
Usage of puritan in English
1
And the little puritan of fifteen heard the voice of his God:
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
2
A man who had the reputation of a saint too; a puritan.
Other People's Money
3
But despite its puritan bent, ManServants also represents a long-overdue role reversal.
The Guardian
4
The puritan soldiers destroyed the profusion of statues that decorated this church.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
5
Was Zhang so anxious to maintain the communist puritan image of Guan?
Death of a Red Heroine
6
You are a puritan and in your heart you despise sensual pleasures.
Of Human Bondage
7
Probably king, prelate and puritan, all found their own account in it.
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
8
You embody for me all the things my puritan grandmothers stood for.
Lydia of the Pines
9
Unlike John the Baptist, He was neither a teetotaller nor a puritan.
Religious Reality: A Book for Men
10
His puritan conscience was enraged at petty thefts, petty forgeries, petty larcenies.
South Wind
11
For, ladies and gentlemen, while we are pious, we are not puritan.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
12
She hath read me such lessons as none but a puritan could.'
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3
13
Miss Mary, with an anxious forehead under her puritan hair, said nothing.
The Argonauts
14
Aldrich's mother was a Bostonian puritan who did not approve of actresses.
The new yorker
15
Of all false doctrines that of the sour-faced, joyless puritan is the falsest.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
16
She was of the puritan temper that loves to scatter irrefutable moral logic.
One Woman's Life
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Portuguese
pudico
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