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Purists
- noun - someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
Puritan
- noun - a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
- a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
- someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
Purlieu
- noun - an outer adjacent area of any place
Purline
- - In roof construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals
- In roof construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.
Purling
- verb - edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- knit with a purl stitch
- make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling"
Purloin
- verb - make off with belongings of others
Purloos
- noun - thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S.
Purpled
- verb - become purple
- color purple
Purples
- noun - a purple color or pigment
- become purple
- color purple
- of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"
Purport
- noun - have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming; "The letter purports to express people's opinion"
- propose or intend;
- the intended meaning of a communication
- the pervading meaning or tenor; "caught the general drift of the conversation"