puritanism
Example Sentences
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By then, Deacon Chapin was dead, although Puritanism wasn’t yet.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
He might have vanished into Boston history were it not for the British, who spectacularly and catastrophically failed to understand what made Massachusetts citizens, forged by an independent version of Puritanism, tick.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022
The Pilgrims who initially arrived in Plymouth practiced an extreme form of Puritanism that broke with the Church of England.
From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2022
Nor were his counterparts in the New World, where Puritanism found space to thrive.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020
As to the Puritanism of our present novels one may dare to say in the teeth of youthful protestants that it is non-existent.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
