A plain meeting room with bare walls: no decoration, no ceremony, nothing kept for pleasure. Everything that is only enjoyable has been stripped away, and what is left is thought to be purer for it. The word still carries that room wherever it goes.
From the word’s history
Our source says the name probably comes from purity plus the ending -an, because the group wanted to clean out of Church of England worship what they saw as Roman Catholic. The capitalised form came before the lowercase one.
來源資料寫的是：這個名稱「可能」來自 purity（純淨）加字尾 -an，因為這群人想把英國國教禮拜中他們認為屬於羅馬天主教的部分清掉。原文用的是 probably，所以這裡保留「可能」。資料也註明大寫的 Puritan 出現得比小寫的 puritan 早，這正好對上底下兩支的先後：先有那群人，才有拿他們來形容別人的用法。
Wiktionary entry Puritan, etymology field supplied in this batch packet (kaikki extract 3f6f69a190036ae4:948279834). The hedge probably is the source's own wording.
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