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
As it evolved in the 19th century, this ideology held that the country was a promised land, the “city upon a hill” that Puritan leader John Winthrop of Massachusetts spoke of.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2025
In Puritan England, about 300 years ago, it was against the law to wear the color red.
From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper
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