anti puritan

& a. [Gr. ἀντί (anti) = against, and Eng. puritan.] A. As substantive: One opposed to the Puritans or to Puritanism. " Dr. Samuel Parker, famous for his tergiversation with the times, now an anti -puritan in the extreme."- Warton: No Notes to Milton's Smaller Poems , p. 501. B. As adjective : Opposed to Puritanism. the purification of our lighter literature from that foul taint which had been contracted during the anti -puritan reaction."-Macaulay: re Ilist. Eng ., chap. xiv.