A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum.
1 And the little puritan of fifteen heard the voice of his God:
2 A man who had the reputation of a saint too; a puritan .
3 But despite its puritan bent, ManServants also represents a long-overdue role reversal.
4 The puritan soldiers destroyed the profusion of statues that decorated this church.
5 Was Zhang so anxious to maintain the communist puritan image of Guan?
6 You are a puritan and in your heart you despise sensual pleasures.
7 Probably king, prelate and puritan , all found their own account in it.
8 You embody for me all the things my puritan grandmothers stood for.
9 Unlike John the Baptist, He was neither a teetotaller nor a puritan .
10 His puritan conscience was enraged at petty thefts, petty forgeries, petty larcenies.
11 For, ladies and gentlemen, while we are pious, we are not puritan .
12 She hath read me such lessons as none but a puritan could.'
13 Miss Mary, with an anxious forehead under her puritan hair, said nothing.
14 Aldrich's mother was a Bostonian puritan who did not approve of actresses.
15 Of all false doctrines that of the sour-faced, joyless puritan is the falsest.
16 She was of the puritan temper that loves to scatter irrefutable moral logic.
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