Puritan is valid Scrabble Word

Is puritan a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for PURITAN in dictionary:

NOUN:

a person who is strictly moral in conduct
a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
a person with censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex
person who follows strict moral or religious principles
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.
a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

ADJECTIVE:

relating to the Puritans

having or displaying censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex
Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.
of or like a puritan

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a rigorously moral or religious person

Words related to PURITAN

Words that contain PURITAN

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How to use PURITAN in a sentence

Protestantism of the Calvinistic or Puritan type shows little consciousness of the distinction we are insisting upon.
LITERATURE OF THE PURITAN PERIOD THE TRANSITION POETS.
What is meant by the Puritan period? What were the objects and the results of the Puritan movement in English history? 2.
His family were prosperous people, who brought him up in the strict Puritan faith, and sent him first to the famous Westminster school and then to Cambridge.
There we begin to see that race of Puritan farmers, but lately represented by John Brown.
Of course, I have not to examine here the intrinsic value of the Puritan doctrines.
Some gentle puritan seemed to have crossed the breed, and to have left a stamp on his face, such as we often see in the female Scotch face rather than the male.
Harry was much blamed by the college men when he said that he had been drawn into the fray by protecting a Puritan.
Heeding not the bugle calls in the camp of the Puritan infantry, they rode straight at the guns.
He was born in 1651, being a scion of the early days of the Puritan colony.

A type of revolution, Wrought from an iron plan, In the largest mold of liberty God cast the Puritan.
Strange to say the effective hatred of Oscar Wilde was shown by a man of the upper class who was anything but a puritan.
Puritan America can understand these women and men because they are Puritan, too, with the ignoble that is in the Puritan as well as with the noble that is just as surely there.
She was clad in the demure Puritan dress worn by young and old alike in the early days of the Society of Friends.
And though, of course, by training she was Puritan, by character she was Puritan too.
His misunderstanding of Shakespeare arose largely from the fact that he is a Puritan, while Shakespeare was spiritually a Catholic.
But just as he may let himself go more than the Puritan in the matter of enjoyment, so he may let himself go more than the Puritan in the matter of melancholy.
And this is exactly where he differs from the Puritan.
Yarmouth illustrated the thrift and enterprise of the Puritan element that came into the province from New England at an early date in its development.
Charming slaves of liberty! Felix is at heart a Puritan and cannot take the world lightly, as it comes.
But the excellent John White, the Puritan rector of Trinity Church in Dorchester, had meditated carefully about these things.
Sewall has been appropriately called the Puritan Pepys.
For the Puritan clergy had received Episcopal orders as well as the rest.
As child, cockney, pirate, or Puritan, his disguises were so good that most people could not see the same man under all.
Puritan missionaries also came from New England and began to convert the Virginians to Puritanism.
The truth is, that if Purcell had lived differently from his neighbours he would have been called a Puritan.

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