puritan

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Born in Dublin in 1623, Downing spent his childhood in London before emigrating to New England with his family as part of the Puritan migration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

It was branded as heretical by Puritan authorities.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025

Our Puritan forebears believed in the possibility of becoming perfect and one with God.

From Salon • May 26, 2025

The Puritan service seemed to her as plain and unlovely as the bare board walls of the Meeting House.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare