Word Meaning

Meaning of "puritans" and the crossword clue

- Cooked a turnip for moral zealot
- Moral zealot
- Moralist
- Rasputin gave away music centre and became a strict disciplinarian
- Strictly moral person
- Moral zealots
- Pure writ Anne’s mentioned to strict moralists
- Rasputin upset strict moralists
- Zealots
- One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.
- One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.
- Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.