All 7 Uses

Puritans
in
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
(Edited)

You are not a Puritan then?
p. 12.1

Puritan = any of the English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
Puritan? You mean a Roundhead? One of those traitors who murdered King Charles?
p. 12.1
But instead she fell in love with a Puritan and ran away to America without her father's blessing.
p. 20.4
The Puritan service seemed to her as plain and unlovely as the bare board walls of the Meeting House.
p. 53.2
"It's these Puritans," Kit sighed. "I'll never understand them. Why do they want life to be so solemn?"
p. 128.2 *

Puritans = English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
But today she had had too sharp a lesson in the retribution of this Puritan Colony.
p. 173.1

Puritan = any of the English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
There was no holiday in this Puritan town, no feasting, no gifts.
p. 234.6

Definitions:

(1) (Puritans)
English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted simpler, “purer” worship and emphasized hard work over pleasure

Protestants are Christian groups that broke away from the Catholic Church; in the United States, well-known Protestant churches include Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
As a common noun (not capitalized unless at the start of a sentence), puritan or puritanical can refer to someone who is very strict -- especially about religious principles or proper behavior.