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Puritan

Puritan meaning

A puritanical person.

Example sentences (20)

As Thomasin, she effectively transforms from an innocent Puritan girl to someone who’s been beaten down by the accusations and lies from her own family and is willing to go down a darker path.

Based on a real-life scandal, it tells the story of a neighbourly feud in 1920s West Sussex between Colman’s religious puritan Edith and Buckley’s rule-defying wild child Rose.

But not until Biden “climate envoy” John Kerry began pontificating at Davos did any prominent member of the Neo-Puritan elect speak specifically to the cult’s existence.

In Massachusetts, where some sources date the ban all the way back to the Puritan era, a campaign to repeal it made progress before stalling in the state Legislature in 2014.

It's nice to see an older character merely step forward with a Puritan work ethic.

Puritan’s Pride Odorless Garlic Extract comes in a rapid-release soft gel.

The people settled on the land of the Indigenous people and the goal was to convert them to the Puritan way of life.

This would only prove to be hypocritical, as they stripped the beliefs of the Indigenous people as well as treated as outcasts those who did not believe in the Puritan ways.

Under Puritan ruler Oliver Cromwell, the belief had been that the harder you worked, the closer you were to God.

Her father, William (), has gotten them exiled from their Puritan community, and they must struggle to survive on the edge of the wilderness.

Patience was banned from her Puritan community in 1692 and died shortly thereafter.

Season 3 ended on a major cliffhanger after the Puritan ghost Patience (now played by Mary Holland) made herself known on the Woodstone grounds, requesting help from the basement ghosts to lure Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) downstairs.

The legend goes that in the years that followed, Yeo and his supporters met in Puritan's Pit by night to worship.

The vicious attacks already leveled against her by the Trump campaign only underscore the backwards direction of a party bent on turning the United States into an authoritarian country with a Puritan ideology.

While there are no known records of Yale itself owning enslaved individuals, the research project has revealed that many of Yale’s Puritan founders and early leaders, along with other prominent members of the university community, were slave owners.

He was assisted by a Puritan churchman, Thomas Stanley, and the villagers followed the lead of their pastors.

Houses in the early Puritan towns were built close together, so you could watch for lapsing sinners.

Just five years earlier in 1660, King Charles II had wrested back control of the government from the Puritan members of Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell.

Newton was a devoted Christian raised in the Puritan tradition in the Church of England who nonetheless rejected key elements of religious orthodoxy, including principally the doctrine of the trinity, which he characterized as idolatry.

The later settlers of New Jersey were far inferior to the original Quaker and Puritan elements which controlled the Constitutional Convention of 1776.