purità — meaning in English
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English meaning
- prude noun Someone who is easily shocked or offended by anything sexual or improper, and overly concerned with proper behavior.
- puritan noun A person who is extremely strict about morals, especially concerning pleasure or sex.
- self-righteous adjective Convinced of your own moral superiority, and making it plain in a way others find insufferable.
Senses
purità is used for these senses in English:
- Puritan A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.
- prude A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
- puritan (usually, derogative) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.
- puritan (usually, derogative) A puritanical person.
- self-righteous Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
prude — full definition
- noun Someone who is easily shocked or offended by anything sexual or improper, and overly concerned with proper behavior.
- adj Prudish; excessively modest or easily scandalized.
puritan — full definition
- noun A person who is extremely strict about morals, especially concerning pleasure or sex.
- noun Historically, a member of a Protestant movement that sought simpler worship and stricter morality.