Puritan /pūrˈi-tən/

1. A person who in the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts wished to carry the reformation of the Church of England further by purifying it of ceremony
2. An opponent of the Church of England on account of its retention of much of the ritual and belief of the Roman Catholics
3. An opponent of the Royalists in the 17c
4. (the following meanings also without cap) a person of similar views to, or in sympathy with, those of the historical Puritans
5. A person strictly moral in conduct
6. Slightingly, someone professing a too-strict morality
7. An advocate of purity in any sense

(also without cap) relating to the Puritans

• beforehand
• before long
• before-mentioned
• before one's time
• before the beam
• before the fact
• before the mast
• before the wind
• beforetime
• before you can say Jack Robinson
• be for it
• befortune
• befortuned
• befortunes
• befortuning
• befoul
• befouled
• befouling
• befouls
• befriend
• befriended
• befriender
• befrienders
• befriending
• befriends