different between purity vs puritan

English

Etymology

pure +? -ity, from Old French purete, from Latin puritas.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pj????ti/, /?pj????ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pj???ti/, /?pj??ti/
• Hyphenation: pur?i?ty

Noun

purity (countable and uncountable, plural purities)

1. The state or degree of being pure.

   Antonym: impurity

Derived terms

• purity ball
• purity pledge
• purity ring
• purity spiral

Translations

English

Etymology

See Puritan.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pj???t?n/, /?pj??t?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pj????t?n/, /?pj????t?n/
• Hyphenation: pu?ri?tan

Noun

puritan (plural puritans)

1. (often disapproving) A puritanical person.
   • 2016 5 August, Janet Street-Porter, "Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it", The Independent.

     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.

Translations

Adjective

puritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)

1. (often disapproving) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex.

   Synonyms: prude, puritanical

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• tanpuri, train up, uptrain

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puritan m (definite singular puritanen, indefinite plural puritanar, definite plural puritanane)

1. form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by puritanar

Romanian

Etymology

From French puritain

Noun

puritan m (plural puritani)

1. puritan

Declension