Puritan
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- noun
- /ˈpjʊrɪtən/
:
puritano
- Puritans... were strict and devout settlers, who came here to build a home, a place without sin.
- Puritans in England
- New England Puritans
- English Puritans
And quite often the Anglican authorities came down pretty hard on, on the, the Puritans.
- And quite often the Anglican authorities came down pretty hard on, on the, the Puritans.
- Look, you know, the theater was banned by the Puritans as a place of, of unhealthiness, where unhealthy things happen.
- As you know, the Puritans are the Christians.
- Within that, there's the Puritans, there's what we call the American Renaissance.
- It's called the rise of the New Puritans.
- Haven't read Noah's The New Puritans?
Examples
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The Puritans established strict laws to ensure moral behavior among their followers.
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The Puritan beliefs emphasized hard work and strict moral codes.
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And it's like the Puritan mindset of New England.
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We were founded in a deep Puritan tradition at a time when the concept of separation of church and state did not exist.
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Then those New England Puritans started their war, as Mama put it.
Fiction book (1994) -
The English Puritan Robert Cleaver told parents they had an obligation to do so.
Academic text (1994) -
Both the Jews and the Puritans who settled North America understood this well.
Academic text (2003) -
Because a significant contingent of early US settlers were Puritans, many of their writings were influential.
Blog text (13) -
The second branch encompassed the Puritans, a radical Calvinist group.
Academic text (1990) -
In their Calvinist zeal, the Puritans attempted to make the laws of the Bible the legal code of Salem.
Fiction book (2002)
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Puritan = purity (semi-transparent) = purit + an
Formally built from 'purity'/'pure' + the suffix '-an', so the relation to 'pure' is visible, but the sense denotes a specific historical religious group and strict moral stance rather than simply 'a pure person'.
Etymology
Puritan comes from the common English word pure, which means 'clean' or 'without sin'. They were called Puritans because they wanted a 'pure' form of worship and a strict moral life, so today a Puritan is someone very strict about behaviour.