puritanism
Example Sentences
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The case, however, made Comstock’s name synonymous with “prudery, Puritanism and officious meddling,” according to Broun and Leech.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2023
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
Bob found the thread connecting these giants of America’s tumultuous, formative years “in their pluralism, in their liberation from Puritanism, in their respect for mind.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2020
Nor were his counterparts in the New World, where Puritanism found space to thrive.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020
The gastronomic argument against Puritanism has always been a strong one with the English mind.
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
