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Meaning of "puritanise" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PURITANISE

puritanise  [ˈpjʊərɪtəˌnaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURITANISE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Puritanise is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb puritanise in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PURITANISE

PRESENT

Present
I puritanise
you puritanise
he/she/it puritanises
we puritanise
you puritanise
they puritanise
Present continuous
I am puritanising
you are puritanising
he/she/it is puritanising
we are puritanising
you are puritanising
they are puritanising
Present perfect
I have puritanised
you have puritanised
he/she/it has puritanised
we have puritanised
you have puritanised
they have puritanised
Present perfect continuous
I have been puritanising
you have been puritanising
he/she/it has been puritanising
we have been puritanising
you have been puritanising
they have been puritanising
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I puritanised
you puritanised
he/she/it puritanised
we puritanised
you puritanised
they puritanised
Past continuous
I was puritanising
you were puritanising
he/she/it was puritanising
we were puritanising
you were puritanising
they were puritanising
Past perfect
I had puritanised
you had puritanised
he/she/it had puritanised
we had puritanised
you had puritanised
they had puritanised
Past perfect continuous
I had been puritanising
you had been puritanising
he/she/it had been puritanising
we had been puritanising
you had been puritanising
they had been puritanising
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will puritanise
you will puritanise
he/she/it will puritanise
we will puritanise
you will puritanise
they will puritanise
Future continuous
I will be puritanising
you will be puritanising
he/she/it will be puritanising
we will be puritanising
you will be puritanising
they will be puritanising
Future perfect
I will have puritanised
you will have puritanised
he/she/it will have puritanised
we will have puritanised
you will have puritanised
they will have puritanised
Future perfect continuous
I will have been puritanising
you will have been puritanising
he/she/it will have been puritanising
we will have been puritanising
you will have been puritanising
they will have been puritanising
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would puritanise
you would puritanise
he/she/it would puritanise
we would puritanise
you would puritanise
they would puritanise
Conditional continuous
I would be puritanising
you would be puritanising
he/she/it would be puritanising
we would be puritanising
you would be puritanising
they would be puritanising
Conditional perfect
I would have puritanise
you would have puritanise
he/she/it would have puritanise
we would have puritanise
you would have puritanise
they would have puritanise
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been puritanising
you would have been puritanising
he/she/it would have been puritanising
we would have been puritanising
you would have been puritanising
they would have been puritanising
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you puritanise
we let´s puritanise
you puritanise
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to puritanise
Past participle
puritanised
Present Participle
puritanising
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PURITANISE


botanise
ˈbɒtəˌnaɪz
botanize
ˈbɒtəˌnaɪz
cantonise
ˈkæntəˌnaɪz
fraternize
ˈfrætəˌnaɪz
gluttonise
ˈɡlʌtəˌnaɪz
monotonise
məˈnɒtəˌnaɪz
monotonize
məˈnɒtəˌnaɪz
peptonise
ˈpɛptəˌnaɪz
peptonize
ˈpɛptəˌnaɪz
puritanize
ˈpjʊərɪtəˌnaɪz
skeletonise
ˈskelɪtəˌnaɪz
skeletonize
ˈskɛlɪtəˌnaɪz
syntonize
ˈsɪntəˌnaɪz
tetanise
ˈtɛtəˌnaɪz
tetanize
ˈtɛtəˌnaɪz
Teutonise
ˈtjuːtəˌnaɪz
Teutonize
ˈtjuːtəˌnaɪz
wantonize
ˈwɒntəˌnaɪz
westernise
ˈwɛstəˌnaɪz
westernize
ˈwɛstəˌnaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PURITANISE

purifies
purify
Purim
purin
purine
purine base
puriri
purism
purist
puristic
puristical
puristically
puritan
puritanic
puritanical
puritanically
puritanicalness
puritanism
puritanize
purity

WORDS THAT END LIKE PURITANISE

Americanise
anise
Balkanise
Christianise
disorganise
Europeanise
euthanise
Germanise
humanise
Italianise
mechanise
organise
paganise
pedestrianise
recognise
reorganise
Romanise
star anise
suburbanise
urbanise
vulcanise

Synonyms and antonyms of puritanise in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «puritanise» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PURITANISE

Find out the translation of puritanise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of puritanise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «puritanise» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

puritanise
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

puritanise
570 millions of speakers

English

puritanise
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

puritanise
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

puritanise
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

puritanise
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

puritanise
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

puritanise
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

puritanise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Puritanise
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

puritanise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

puritanise
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

puritanise
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Puritanise
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

puritanise
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

puritanise
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शुध्दीकरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

puritanise
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

puritanise
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

puritanise
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

puritanise
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

puritanise
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

puritanise
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

puritanise
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

puritanise
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

puritanise
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of puritanise

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PURITANISE»

The term «puritanise» is barely ever used and occupies the 209.543 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PURITANISE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «puritanise» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «puritanise» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about puritanise

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURITANISE»

Discover the use of puritanise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to puritanise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ritualism and New Testament Christianity. Is the Church of ...
“If the Bishop of London is inclined to 'run a-muck' at Catholic faith and Catholic worship, by all means let him do so. He has as good a right to his opinion as we have to ours. If he wishes to Puritanise the Church, as I believe he does, let him ...
Verner Moore White, 1867
2
The Free churchman and Christian spectator [formerly The ...
It is this halting and unworthy policy which exposes the Evangelicals to the contempt of the world and endangers the good cause they desire to serve. Their object is to Puritanise ihe Church of England and to free her from the " witching errors" ...
3
Essays: chiefly on questions of church and state from 1850 ...
Indications of this disposition to Calvinise and Puritanise the Irish Church have not been wanting. There may be others, also, from opposite points of view, who may consider that so choice an opportunity ought not to be lost of removing from  ...
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1870
4
The Quarterly Review
Indications of this disposition to Calvinise and Puritanise the Irish Church have not been wanting. A memorial to that effect has already been printedAnd, in one diocese, a resolution has been framed, placing the Thirty-Nine Articles in the ...
William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1869
5
The Death of Christian Britain
However, by the following decade the struggle to puritanise was starting to win over Glasgow society, especially with the arrival of Thomas Chalmers. By 1860, Dunlop recalled, Glasgow had been 'advanced & improved in science, literature,  ...
Callum G. Brown, 2013
6
The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban ...
The point of this was to establish connection and continuity between Jewish, Hellenic, and British culture in order to anglicise and puritanise the antique as part of his attempt to overcome his fear of paganism. Wood, as a young, inexperienced ...
Peter Borsay, 2014
7
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
... 'puritanise'. And the reason for the general dislike, misprizing and neglect of Byron in England is mainly due to the fact that he stands outwith the English literary tradition altogether. He is alien to it and not to be assimilated.84 The spirit of ...
Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, Fran Brearton, 2011
8
The London Quarterly Review
Indications of this disposition to Calvinisc and Puritanise the Irish Church have not been wanting. A memorial to that effect has already been printed. And, in one diocese, a resolution has been framed, placing the Thirty-Nine Articles in the ...
‎1869
9
Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture, and Community in Shetland
In comparison to the Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland, however, the project to puritanise Lerwick was a lamentable failure. During the 1710s and 1720s the kirk session of the town did not function fully. It did not carry out the full range of ...
Callum G. Brown, 1998
10
Modern Wales: A Concise History
Since many of the itinerants also preached in English it was inevitable that this attempt to puritanise Wales would fail. The act lapsed in 1653. Some Welsh Puritans were now caught up in national events as Cromwell dissolved the Long  ...
Gareth Elwyn Jones, 1994

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURITANISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term puritanise is used in the context of the following news items.
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My tailor is obsédé
L'Amérique se puritanise et, pour appâter l'ado prépubère de Loos-lez-Lille ou de Bourg-lès-Valence, il faut du gore, du cash, et même du sexe. Et pour cela, la ... «Le Monde, Dec 14»
2
Actu WSOP - Le drag queen Shaun Deeb cré la polémique dans le …
Notre société se puritanise, les occasions de rire se raréfient et la censure progresse mais pourquoi certains joueurs s'obstine à empêcher les joueuses de ... «PokerWorks France, Jun 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Puritanise [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/puritanise>. Apr 2024 ».
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