Word "PURITAN" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
Synonyms:
prude

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
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

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures

Crossword Clues for PURITAN

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Indian fried bread and brown, clean liver
Strict in religion and morals (7)
Person of strict morality (7)
Person of extreme moral strictness. (7)
Strict Protestant out to ruin Pat (7)
Figure at the Salem witch trials
Prude's joke about woman (7)
Joke about woman, strictly religious (7) The Guardian Quiptic 02 Mar 2025
Train up new person adhering to strict moral principles The Times Quick Cryptic 27 Feb 2025
English Protestant The Sun Two Speed 13 Feb 2025
Quip about woman with strict morals The Sun Two Speed 13 Feb 2025
A turnip is cooked by prude (7) Puzzler Cryptic 04 Feb 2025
Hidebound educated woman entertained by play on words (7)
Joke about lovely meter maid is moralistic (7)
Prudish one Thomas Joseph 27 Nov 2024
Train up (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 25 Oct 2024
Overly strict and moral person (7)
English Protestant The Sun Two Speed 08 Sep 2024
Quip about educated woman with strict morals The Sun Two Speed 08 Sep 2024
She sticks to the rules when cooking a turnip (7)
Very strict person transported by up-train (7)
Strict moralist Newsday 05 Jul 2024
Moralist turning up in front of train wreck (7) The Guardian Cryptic 18 Jun 2024
One who's strict cooks a turnip (7)
Early American settler with a strict religious code (7) Puzzler 15 May 2024
Strictly moral (7)
Strict moralist is rescued from wreckage of up-train (7)
Follower of an austere faith (7)
Adherent of strict moral code (7)
Prude's joke about girl (7) Puzzler Cryptic 08 Apr 2024
Train up disturbed person who's morally strict (7)
Extremely strict girl cracking joke
With back-up, train form that's very moral (7)
Killjoy The Sun Two Speed 04 Feb 2024
Joke about educated woman having strict morals The Sun Two Speed 04 Feb 2024
Play on words about educated girl, a strictly moral type (7)
Play on words about educated girl, a strictly moral type The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Jan 2024
Morally strict Eugene Sheffer 09 Aug 2023
Like the Pilgrims, religiously USA Today 31 Jul 2023
Joke about artist concealing sex — probably not a favourite of mine! The Guardian Cryptic 14 Jul 2023
John Bunyan, notably LA Times Daily 21 May 2023
Proper person wanting a turnip in a stew The Telegraph Toughie 09 May 2023
Joke about girl being straitlaced The Times Cryptic 19 Aug 2022
Moralistic type’s play on words taking in girl The Times Cryptic 07 Jan 2022
Religious hardliner turned up and hurried to suppress it The Times Cryptic 25 Dec 2021
A turnip stew produced by Mrs Grundy Irish Times Crosaire 04 Dec 2021
Prudish one Thomas Joseph 01 Dec 2021
Joke about woman having strict morals The Sun Two Speed 07 May 2021
Killjoy The Sun Two Speed 07 May 2021
Quip about woman with strict morals The Sun Two Speed 14 Jan 2021
Plymouth colonist, e.g Newsday 14 Aug 2020
Joke about girl being strictly moral
Prudish play on words about girl being educated The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Apr 2020
Goody-goody in up-train, agitated
Prude The Telegraph Quick 14 Sep 2019
Moralistic type managed to protect Italian after backing up The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Jun 2019
Extreme moralist The Times Concise 01 May 2019
Play on words impressing educated girl, a moralist
Moralist The Sun Two Speed 25 Nov 2018
Joke about educated woman having strict morals The Sun Two Speed 25 Nov 2018
Hell surrounding Biblical city seen by an austere religious follower
Killjoy chewing a turnip
Train up (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 18 Jun 2018
Train up converts to become extremely religious
Joke about woman, a strait-laced type
16th-century Protestant demanding further reforms in doctrine and worship The Telegraph General Knowledge 22 Oct 2017
Old Protestant's bread, brown
Killjoy makes joke about woman The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Aug 2017
Strictly moral person The Times Concise 01 Jun 2017
Killjoy The Telegraph Quick 21 Mar 2017
Train up deranged fundamendalist
Stern joke about artist possessing appeal
Wordplay about educated woman having strict morals?
Feeble joke about girl being strait-laced The Times Cryptic 16 May 2016
No epicure having Indian bread before function
Strict moralist Eugene Sheffer 12 Feb 2015
Mrs. Grundy
Joke about educated woman, who didn't recognise Noel?
17th-century New England settler
Upright piano tuner worked without one
Libertine's opposite
Like the Pilgrims, religiously
Salem witch accuser
Morally strict
Mrs. Grundy
Self-righteous sort
Cromwell, for one
Morally strict
Bluenose
Cromwell, for one
Religious hardliner turned up and hurried to suppress it
Bluenose
1606 play of the Shakespeare apocrypha, with "The"
Narrow-minded person.
Subject of Saint-Gaudens statue.
John Alden, for example.
William Bradford, for example.
Pilgrim Father.
Early New Englander.
Strait-laced one.
Increase Mather, for example.
John Winthrop, for instance.
Pilgrim father.
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