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Puritan
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Pu·ri·tan
/ ˈpyoŏritn/
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n.
a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
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(puritan)
a person with censorious moral beliefs, esp. about pleasure and sex.
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adj.
of or relating to the Puritans.
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(puritan)
having or displaying censorious moral beliefs, esp. about pleasure and sex.
DERIVATIVES:
Pu·ri·tan·ism
(also pu·ri·tan·ism) n.
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Puritanism and Historical Controversy.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Puritanism and Historical Controversy. By William...been made for the central importance of Puritanism in seventeenth-century England...described as the "export potential" of Puritanism as a central ingredient in the formation...
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Puritanism and Its Discontents.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Puritanism and Its Discontents. Edited by Laura...little real use for the book version. Puritanism and Its Discontents faces both of these...lessons of the Puritan revolution, and Puritanism and Its Discontents has much to offer...
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Puritanism and Historical Controversy. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; PURITANISM AND HISTORICAL CONTROVERSY William Lamont...the seventeenth century should ignore Puritanism. It had a major role in shaping the...The big problem, though, is what was Puritanism? Patrick Collinson, who has done more...
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The Culture of English Puritanism. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; THE CULTURE OF ENGLISH PURITANISM Christopher Durston and Jacqueline...seventeenth century should ignore Puritanism. It had a major role in shaping...big problem, though, is what was Puritanism? Patrick Collinson, who has done...
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Puritanism, paternalism, and power.
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...repression? The answer lies in our history. Puritanism Politicians and other patriotic posturers...Mencken's famous characterization, Puritanism was "the haunting fear that someone...American social and political affairs. Puritanism's "central themes recur in the related...
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Economic Puritanism Is Bad for Argentina, Too
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/31/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...manifestation of nearly a century of economic puritanism which bears much responsibility for...current exhibit of the effects of economic puritanism but not the most important. More fundamental...Several years later, balanced-budget puritanism accelerated the drop into the Depression...
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Obsessional personality traits: the association with attitudes toward Christianity and religious puritanism.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Psychology; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...s (1973) description of religious puritanism. Within his discussion of conservatism...1975), Wilson describes religious puritanism as a person's concern for divine law...toward Christianity, and religious puritanism, based on observations by Raphael et...
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The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638.( )(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638. By Theodore Dwight Bozeman...49.95. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground...between antinomianism and mainstream Puritanism in early seventeenth-century England...
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Puritanism lives.
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...all people are uppon us." Hatred of Puritanism happens to be one of the best-established...role in the modern state and world. Puritanism reflected the unhappiness of English...against us." In the literature of Puritanism, the analogy to ancient Israel recurs...
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A CUP OF PURITANISM TO MELLOW CHRISTMAS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/4/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Christmas discontents is the ruinous success of Puritanism - ruinous, that is, to Puritanism. That Christmas-at-our-throats fellow...emerged from the cultural contradictions of Puritanism. Puritanism inculcated Scrooge-like asceticism...
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Puritanism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
PURITANISM. Puritanism is the set of religious beliefs and practices retroactively ascribed...not an embraced identity, the definitions of both Puritan and Puritanism have been and remain inescapably vague. Roughly, we may take the...
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Puritans and Puritanism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PURITANS AND PURITANISM PURITANS AND PURITANISM. The terms "Puritans" and "Puritanism" originated in England in the 1560s, when they were used to describe the people who wished to reform the Church of England beyond the limits established...
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puritanism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
puritanism. In popular usage ‘puritan...for the Irish church to accommodate puritanism. However, under Charles I, Archbishop...Wentworth took firm measures to stamp out puritanism within the Irish church, imposing on...
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Censorship and Puritanism
Book article from: American Decades
CENSORSHIP AND PURITANISM Prohibition The 1920s are now popularly...Eighteenth Amendment, a triumph for puritanism. Deriving from optimistic overconfidence...other more rebellious experiments. Puritanism—contemporaneously defined...
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Perry Miller
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...interpreter of the meaning of the New England Puritanism of the 17th century. Perry Miller was...reinterpreted 17th-century New England Puritanism. The dominant image of the Puritan...to Province is between the ideals of Puritanism at the onset and the consequent ironic...
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