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Puritanism

[ pyoor-i-tn-iz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the principles and practices of the Puritans.
  2. (sometimes lowercase) extreme strictness in moral or religious matters, often to excess; rigid austerity.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Puritanism1

First recorded in 1565–75; Puritan + -ism
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Puritanism shattered into multiple feuding sects and collapsed, and 18th century Enlightenment values of cosmopolitan secular government were ushered in.

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The case, however, made Comstock’s name synonymous with “prudery, Puritanism and officious meddling,” according to Broun and Leech.

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Mencken, who defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy,” these anti-woke warriors seem to live in dread that someone, somewhere, might be acting rationally and graciously.

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He might have vanished into Boston history were it not for the British, who spectacularly and catastrophically failed to understand what made Massachusetts citizens, forged by an independent version of Puritanism, tick.

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The Pilgrims who initially arrived in Plymouth practiced an extreme form of Puritanism that broke with the Church of England.

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