Puritan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A puritanical person.

   “These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.”

2. sıfat Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.

   “A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.”

3. isim A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.
4. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of puritan.

   “Chardonnay is very malleable, but once we get the fruit in we actually take a very Puritan approach to it.”