Term: puritan: someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
Candidate hypernym: abstainer: someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline → 1
Candidate hypernym: covering: an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) → 0
Candidate hypernym: jack: an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug → 0
Candidate hypernym: merostomata: used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida → 0
Candidate hypernym: zambian: a native or inhabitant of Zambia → 0
Candidate hypernym: split-pea soup: made of stock and split peas with onions carrots and celery → 0
Candidate hypernym: straddle: the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options → 0
Candidate hypernym: corruptness: the state of being corrupt → 0
Candidate hypernym: autacoid: any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification → 0
Candidate hypernym: dig: the site of an archeological exploration → 0
Candidate hypernym: risklessness: safety as a consequence of entailing no risk → 0