1) Blue 2) Bluenose 3) Early New Englander 4) Goody cake getting brown 5) John Alden 6) Morally strict 7) Nonindulgent 8) Pietistic Protestant 9) Puritanic 10) Puritanical 11) Salem witch accuser 12) The Scarlet Letter extra 13) William Bradford
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1) Bluenose 2) Nonindulgent 3) Prig 4) Prude 5) Puritanic
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The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, including, but not limited to, English Calvinists. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England. In modern times, the word...
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• (a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans. • (n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions. • (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal us...
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From 1564, a member of the Church of England who wished to eliminate Roman Catholic survivals in church ritual, or substitute a presbyterian for an episcopal form of church government. Activities...
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Black felt hat with high conical crown and narrow straight brim, worn by the Puritans during the 17th century. It was usually trimmed with a buckle at the front.
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Most familiar to modern Americans as the religious denomination of the Mayflower colonists, the Puri
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Pu'ri·tan adjective Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.
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Pu'ri·tan noun [ From
Purity .]
1. (Eccl. Hist.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans ...
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The Puritans were a group of religious people who wanted what they perceived to be extreme purity in church services. They observed a strict code of behaviour with few amusements.
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Puritan is a cultivated variety of potato.
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[
n] - adheres to strict religious principles
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noun someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
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From 1564, a member of the Church of England who wished to eliminate Roman Catholic survivals in church ritual, or substitute a presbyterian for an episcopal form of church government. Activities included the Marprelate controversy, a pamphleteering attack carried out under the pseudonym `Martin...
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a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party. · (l.c.) a person who is strict in moral or religious matters, o...
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