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puritan | excellence |

As a noun puritan

is a member of a particular protestant religious sect.

As a proper noun excellence is

a title of honor or respect; more common in the form excellency.

puritan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (often disapproving): a puritanical person

    • Synonyms

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (often disapproving): acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex

    • Synonyms

    * puritanical * antisexualist * prude * erotophobe * genophobe

    Related terms

    * purity * puritanical * Puritanism

    excellence

    English

    (wikipedia excellence)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  • Something in which one excels.
  • An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

    • Synonyms

    * superiority * pre-eminence * perfection * worth * goodness * purity * greatness

    See also

    * par excellence ----