Puritanism

How To Use Puritanism In A Sentence

• A strain of puritanism runs through all her work.
• They had, however, their own peculiar superstitions, which overclouded the mind with thick-coming fancies, as completely as the puritanism of their neighbours. A Legend of Montrose
• His thoroughgoing Puritanism meant that he constantly subjected himself to self-examination.
• Shaw, a highly dexterous dramaturgist, smothers his dramaturgy in a pifflish iconoclasm that is no more than a disguise for Puritanism. A Book of Prefaces
• He told the magazine: "You get this constant swing between puritanism and the desire to push things as far as they can go: what I call cavaliers v roundheads. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
• It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
• It was just that old Puritanism, Spartanism of her childhood, which was continually reaching up its bony hand from the grave where she had interred it. The Bent Twig
• Is there some law of conservation of puritanism in American culture, that we always have to find a new class of sinners to officially hector? Matthew Yglesias » Food Taxes vs Food Subsidies
• While much of his later life was occupied by scholarly questions of the Bible and homosexuality, he came to abhor the label "gay minister," and pursued a much wider range of studies, on early American religions, Elizabethan Puritanism, church music and the African-American experience. NYT > Home Page
• Although he calls the treatise in which he addresses himself to this endeavour St. Paul and Protestantism, therein following Renan's phraseology, in the treatise itself he speaks rather of St. Paul and Puritanism; and this he does because here in England Puritanism is the strong and special representation of Protestantism. Matthew Arnold