puritan English

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What does puritan mean?

puritan

— noun someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures

— noun (= prude) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

Puritan

— noun a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship

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These nationals who are too puritan, we're wasting our time with them.

Anybody ever tell you you were a back-aching Puritan?

Talk to the puritan descendants.

No, but I'm a puritan. A puritan!

Education Puritan we do not dispose of it.

A puritan!

What could be more bourgeois, Puritan, even American, than that?

Besides, I'm a puritan, as you know.

No one defecates more than us Germans. over the hearts of our puritan children.

I'm a puritan in love. you love me because you're a bit crazy.

You're probably a little puritan, like the rest of these people.

You're a puritan.

I don't want you to think me a puritan, Madame Blanche.

I'm no saint. Heaven knows. I'm no Puritan.

A puritan.

Monsieur Samuel, I think you are a puritan.

Not that I'm a puritan, mind.

No, but I'm a puritan.

I thought, as a Puritan, you would see it as your God-given duty to do the Lord's work in this land, regardless of sacrifice.

Vivian, I'm no puritan, and I'm no killjoy.

You may be a pilgrim, but I can see you're no puritan. Oh.

What a fascinating puritan you are.

Perhaps I am rather a puritan. After my mother died, my father's sister took charge of me.

And now the best specimen - the Puritan.

No, do. We'd only be doing it to pass the time, and that's no solution for either of us. Besides, I'm a puritan, as you know.

I hate this ghastly, puritan, missionary North.

You can't walk into a precinct with knowledge of these murders and claim a 200-year-old Puritan's responsible.

I was a Puritan, remember?

TYPICAL LEFTY PURITAN.

She. She was a puritan from the Plymouth.

Some say his stoicism in the face of such excess is what fanned the flames of the Puritan revolt.

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But anyone who knows European history can identify a parallel: the Calvinist, Puritan revolution.

Historians have noted its influence in Elizabethan England (which produced the spirit animating the Puritan Rebellion and migration to America), and increasingly recognize it as the motive force behind the French and the Russian Revolutions.

With our post-machine standard of living, we can afford to shed some of the Puritan guilt that has, for centuries, kept our noses to the grindstone.

To all appearances the act of a Puritan fanatic, the authorities suspected Berchet of being a part of an organized Puritan conspiracy.

Moreover, cultural pessimism is very American, extending back to the country's Puritan roots.