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
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
Quite "continental," you perceive; and a long way from the Puritanism of our ancestors!
From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
