Term: puritan: someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
Candidate hypernym: causal agent: any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results → 1
Candidate hypernym: chemical irritant: a substance producing irritation → 0
Candidate hypernym: gymnastic apparatus: sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises → 0
Candidate hypernym: disestablishment: the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England → 0
Candidate hypernym: boater: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown → 0
Candidate hypernym: sodalite: a vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous rocks → 0
Candidate hypernym: cream-colored courser: courser of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World → 0
Candidate hypernym: bakelite: a thermosetting plastic used as electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc. → 0
Candidate hypernym: mass-action principle: (neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning → 0
Candidate hypernym: leucadendron: large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts → 0
Candidate hypernym: unfavorableness: the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success → 0