Examples of 'puritan' in a sentence
Meaning of "puritan"
Puritan (adjective): Relating to or characteristic of the Protestant reformers in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England. It is often used to describe strict moral or religious beliefs.
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- A puritanical person.
- Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex.
- A member of a particular Protestant religious sect advocating greater purity and piety.
- Alternative letter-case form of puritan.
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I hate this puritan and missionary north.
The community was deeply religious and puritan.
The puritan work ethic is fascinating to contemplate.
One of the rarest of later puritan books.
Puritan fathers do not care much for stories.
You can see that he was a puritan.
Looks like a puritan tailor shop.
You puritan you always end up with a sex.
And you are a puritan like always.
Puritan order of worship was highly predictable.
During the great puritan migration.
Puritan religious beliefs were first expressed.
He was a major in the parliamentary army and was a zealous puritan.
Whether it was a puritan revolution or a bourgeois revolution.
Early founders were in the puritan tradition.
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Puritan definitions of marriage implied the conjugal act.
Brereley himself began life as a puritan.
I am not a puritan about these things.
If the old man had been a puritan.
There is not a puritan in sight.
He strove to portray himself as an ascetic puritan.
Puritan reformers who want to place her baby in an orphanage.
It is the sarcastic exhilaration of a puritan culture.
All you need to catch a puritan menace is a foxhole surprise.
America has never outgrown its puritan roots.
Talk to the puritan descendants.
Puritan and witch alike.
It might even reach a puritan state.
He was a puritan and so interested in the religious controversies of the time.
The land established on puritan values.
They were puritan and democratic.
You were a lookout over on puritan.
It was more puritan and quiet.
You are probably a little puritan.
I had as lief be a puritan as a politician.
Your little brother is so puritan.
Gosson offers what is in essence a puritan attack on imaginative literature.
Puritan what are you.
What a fascinating puritan you are.
The puritan statue.
He was not such a puritan once.
Was a puritan minister.
She was far too puritan.
He seems almost like a puritan lady whose period hath stopped.
Puritan theology at the time stressed a strict doctrine of salvation by repentance.
In every puritan country.
Puritan work ethic.
Briggs was a committed puritan and an influential professor in his time.
Typical lefty puritan.
You are a puritan and in your heart you despise sensual pleasures.
