Similar words: purity, good samaritan, purify, spurious, purification, security, obscurity, litany. Meaning: ['pjʊərɪtən] 
n. 1. 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 2. someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures 3. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum. adj. morally rigorous and strict.
n. 1. 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 2. someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures 3. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum. adj. morally rigorous and strict. 
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31. The proverbially dour New England Puritan.
32. The Puritan exclusive localism breeded Isolationism.
33. The school was named for a Puritan religious leader.
34. The extremer Puritan mood had gone.
35. The English Ciil War also called the Puritan Reolution.
36. Detractors call it Wahhabism, after the 18th-century puritan reformer whose family alliance with the Al Sauds laid the foundation for their eventual conquest of Arabia.
37. The success of the Plymouth colony thus attracted more Europeans and set off what we call the "Great Puritan Migration.
38. In 1641, Milton standing on side of the Puritan Revolution, began to participate in religious polemics against the feudal dynasty of the pillars of the state religion.
39. Puritan women expected to submit to their husbands and to focus on homemaking as their career.
40. The Marble Faun (1860), though set in Rome, dwells on the Puritan themes of sin, isolation, expiation, and salvation.
41. The Puritan family, also maligned by ignorant moderns, stands as a model.
42. But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not countenance tolerance of opposing religious views.
43. We find ourselves in today's reading, Areopagitica in the middle of the English Revolution, sometimes called the Puritan Revolution.
44. No other Puritan writers than Tyler in America displayed such verbal riches.
45. There was no religious liberty in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Roger Williams, for example, was banished because he did not accept orthodox Puritan beliefs.
46. Last week we talked about Anne Bradstreet and the role of women in the Puritan colonies.
47. He is too much of a puritan to enjoy dancing.
48. ' stood apart, with countenances of inflexible gravity , beyond what even the Puritan aspect could attain . ".
49. The anti - Puritan attack was recklessly over - stated.
50. The English Civil War is also called the Puritan Revolution.
51. In other ways the Bible limited Puritan writing[sentencedict.com], blurring and deadening the pages.
52. I don't buy the view that Hogarth is sneering at lovers here or expressing Puritan fear of the flesh.
53. Calvinism---Strict theological doctrine of the French Protestant church reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) and the basis of Puritan society.
54. Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister —an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches.
55. The influence of puritan interpreters of Islam reaches into the mosques across the country where Salafi and Wahhabi imams preach.
56. Many of the old puritan colonists retained their factious temperaments in the New World.
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57. The most famous dissidents within the Puritan community Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were banished following disagreements over theology and policy.
58. So in the years just before 1637, the English court under James I and then later under Charles I -the English crown had been cracking down on the delivery of Puritan sermons in the church.
59. The school was named for a puraton ( Puritan ) religious leader.
60. Harvard university was named after John Harvard, a Puritan minister who left his books and half of his estate to the college.
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