| 单词 | puritan conscience |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPuritan conscience Puritan conscience n. a strict individual conscience requiring high moral standards; cf. nonconformist conscience n. at nonconformist n. and adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [noun] > conformity to high standards strictness1578 stricturea1616 Puritan consciencea1649 New Englandism1844 a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 39 Ochiltry, who had once the fairest, formalest and largest Puritan Conscience in the Kingdom. 1845 T. W. Coit Puritanism 521 (note) It is shown, with what a true Puritan conscience, some of the New Englanders treated the subject of slavery. 1901 R. Kipling Let. in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) xiii. 318 Her Puritan conscience which she has inherited from her New England forbears still makes her take life too blame seriously. 1998 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 37 456 In discussing male honor codes in the early seventeenth century, Fletcher is willing to recognize the pull of the Puritan conscience. < as lemmas |
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