puritannoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpjʊə.rɪ.tən/us/ˈpjʊr.ɪ.t̬ən/someone who believes that it is important to work hard and control yourself, and that pleasure is wrong or unnecessary:
Despite his apparent liberal views, he's really something of a puritan/he has a puritan streak.
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Religious people: followers of religious groups
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- animism
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- Hindu
- hot-gospeller
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- nonconformist
- pantheism
- papist
- Parsi
- puritan
- televangelism
- yogi
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