Similar words: puritanical, puritan, cosmopolitanism, authoritarianism, humanitarianism, satanism, egalitarianism, utilitarianism. Meaning: ['pjʊərɪtənɪzm] 
n. 1. the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects) 2. strictness and austerity in conduct and religion.
n. 1. the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects) 2. strictness and austerity in conduct and religion. 
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1 A strain of puritanism runs through all her work.
2 Out of Puritanism came the intense work ethic.
3 Its troubled inhabitants turned to Puritanism.
4 That was a false and sanctimonious puritanism, such as had dogged the Inquisitor's own youth.
5 The disapproving proscriptions of puritanism could not have squeezed all impropriety from the area.
6 For those raised in the prudery of puritanism or the celibacy-conscious preoccupations of Catholicism this ran against the grain.
7 Puritanism, the household, and property dominate the diary, as perhaps her whole life.
8 Puritanism influenced Nathaniel Hawthorne greatly.
9 For Puritanism was, above all else,(www.Sentencedict.com) a Bible movement.
10 Perhaps, form the beginning, a steak of puritanism had been latent , deep inside him.
11 The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.
12 Puritanism was a natural revolt against that Naturalism which threatened to end in sheer animalism.
13 Although he held the Puritanism viewpoint of life and behavior standard, he seriously criticized it.
14 The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them.
15 Despite the apparent puritanism[sentencedict.com], the Saturday dances and gin rummy sessions in Mao's cave-house were a shock after the earnest conversation of American communists in the US.
16 To treat with national heritage Puritanism, his attitude is criticism, and retrospect.
17 It was for religious and temperamental reasons - Puritanism and parsimony - that Alfred kept his family in such austerity.
18 Roundhead points of view, various forms of Puritanism and other forms of religious rebellion, are antiestablishment, and yet they are all coded within the discourse of the Christian religion.
19 It was in no sense a revival of the political dissent symbolised by Cromwellian puritanism.
20 The feeling is that they should be replaced by buildings constructed according to the canons of Wahhabi puritanism.
21 Clement combined his highly positive evaluation of culture with a severe puritanism towards any concessions to polytheistic myth and cult.
22 She saw it as one of the major manifestations of eighteenth-century philanthropic puritanism.
23 There was, as we have said before, no final triumph for puritanism.
24 The Protestant Reformation, and especially the rising energies of Puritanism in the early seventeenth century, are beginning to do a lot to change this state of affairs.
25 Unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism.
26 In the colonial period, American Exceptionalism came into being. It has an intimate relation with Puritanism.
27 And this belief that's called Calvinist predestination is really at the heart of mainstream English Puritanism at this point.
28 Or they could wait in hope for the European Central Bank to decide inflation is not so bad after all; or for the Germans to resile from their economic puritanism and become free-spending idlers.
29 Chapter Four will explain the causes of Hawthorne's conflicting Puritanism in The House in the social, religious and biographic aspects.
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