puritan

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.tən/|/ˈpjɔː-/    美 /ˈpjʊ.ɹɪ.tən/|/ˈpjɜ-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A puritanical person. derogatory,usually
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic. derogatory,usually
    — A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.

词形变化

puritans plural more puritan comparative most puritan superlative

词源

词源 1
See Puritan.
词源 2
See Puritan.
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