Puritan, na.
1. adj. said of a person: real or afectadamente the public or private virtues he professes rigorously and boast of it. U t. c. s.
2. adj. Said of the individual from a group of reformist, initially religious, formed in England in the 16th century, it advocated purifying the official Anglican Church of adhesions received from Catholicism. U t. c. s.