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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally, a puritan; one who pretends to more purity than others possess: used as a distinctive ecclesiastical name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See
Albigenses .
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