puritan• It might be heresy to say this in a modern world, but the Profitboss is a puritan.• He was neither a hypocrite nor a puritan.• Of course I was not - at least I told myself I was not - a puritan.• She's hardly the type for an old puritan like you, Karelius.• He remained a Scandinavianpuritan, less humourous than Bergman, certainly more covert about sexuality generally.• The playboy and the puritan made an oddcouple, but they could use each other.