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unpuritan

unpuritan adjective: not puritan.

Adjective

unpuritan (comparative more unpuritan, superlative most unpuritan)

  1. Not puritan.
    • Of all the theologians of his age, Hooker was the most unpuritan; […]1861, John Tulloch, English Puritanism and its leaders, page 29

Forms of unpuritan

comparativemore unpuritan
superlativemost unpuritan
alternative formun-Puritan

Origin of unpuritan

From un- + puritan.

Questions about unpuritan

What does unpuritan mean?
Unpuritan means not puritan.
What part of speech is unpuritan?
Unpuritan is an adjective.

Words near unpuritan in the dictionary

  1. unpurgeable
  2. unpurged
  3. unpurifiable
  4. unpurified
  5. unpurifying
  6. unpuritan
  7. unpuritanical
  8. unpuritanically
  9. unpurled
  10. unpurliteness
  11. unpurloined

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