Definition of "Puritan"

It’s a seedy time of the night and Jacky is telling me about sailors and their needs. A man called P. C. Alexander, an ex-Indian High-Commissioner in London has cleaned up Madras. There’s a very Puritan atmosphere here now, and the seamen are not happy. ‘All ship’s crew very happy with Calcutta. Can bring many girls there. Bombay too – no problem.’ Bombay is apparently the only city in India to license prostitutes.

1989, Michael Palin, Around the World in 80 Days, BBC Books, page 111

Chardonnay is very malleable, but once we get the fruit in we actually take a very Puritan approach to it.

2009, Melissa Stackhouse, “Conversations with Bigwigs: Melissa Stackhouse”, in Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, Drink This: Wine Made Simple, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, chapter 5 (Chardonnay: Chic and Changeable), page 121

I learned to work from my grandfather, who held a very Puritan kind of work ethic.

2019, Susan L. Popham, “Teaching Editing through a Feminist Theoretical Lens”, in Suzan Flanagan, Michael J. Albers, editors, Editing in the Modern Classroom, Routledge