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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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