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
So strong was the Puritanism of Bolton that it has been called the "Geneva of England," and Rupert at once resolved to take the town.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
