The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PURITAN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PURITAN
- Old Protestant’s bread, brown
- Hell surrounding Biblical city seen by an austere religious follower
- Joke about woman, a strait-laced type
- Train up converts to become extremely religious
- No epicure having Indian bread before function
- Joke about girl being strictly moral
- Goody-goody in up-train, agitated
- Play on words impressing educated girl, a moralist
- Killjoy chewing a turnip
- Train up deranged fundamendalist
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What does PURITAN mean?
PURITAN noun- (often disapproving) a puritanical person
- (often disapproving) acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex