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US
/ˈpjʊɹətən/
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[ UK /pjˈʊɹɪtən/ ]
[ UK /pjˈʊɹɪtən/ ]
NOUN
- a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
How To Use Puritan In A Sentence
- For Puritanism was, above all else, a Bible movement.
- The Puritans left England to escape being persecuted.
- The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.
- Fueled by supremacist and puritan theological creeds their symbolic acts of power become uncompromisingly fanatic and violent.
- the Puritan ethic
- These New Puritans, an English band that has just released its debut album, “Beat Pyramid” (Domino), played rock that was spikier than a bushel of sea urchins. SXSW: 15 Minutes With These New Puritans - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
- Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
- Concepts highly prized by Puritans still exist in debased form in American mass culture.
- I sometimes wish GUD didn't publish adult-leaning content so that we could more easily market to perspicacious YA -- but at least in puritanical-US, that would be litigiously dangerous. MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
- More than a religion, Puritanism was a way of life.
