Definition of puritanism in English:
puritanism
noun ˈpjʊərɪtənɪz(ə)mˈpjʊrɪtnɪsm
mass noun1The beliefs or principles of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
Example sentencesExamples
- Theologically, Puritanism represents an emphasis within the Reformed Protestant (Calvinist) tradition on intense personal devotion and extreme ethical probity.
- It is a secular 'born-again' phenomenon that has its historical origin in Puritanism as part of the American psyche.
- Puritanism made a substantial impact on Anglo-America.
- Boston was an early centre of New England Puritanism.
- Puritanism had initially been a movement to expunge remaining elements of Catholicism from the Church of England.
- Many of the precepts of Puritanism survived well into the nineteenth century.
- The disintegration of Puritanism preceded any attempt to impose the Presbyterian system.
- More than a religion, Puritanism was a way of life.
- Her story of the work ethic begins with its invention in 17th-century Puritanism.
- English Puritanism temporarily triumphed during the English Revolution.
- In his lifetime he saw the English Church sway from extreme Puritanism to near Catholicism.
- 1.1 Censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex.
an era of sexual puritanism
the extreme puritanism of the hardliners grated on people
Example sentencesExamples
- Is there some truth in that or is it just latent puritanism?
- He was a rebellious product of the militant puritanism that shaped so many in the 1950s and early 60s.
- Their story champions freedom over constriction, sensuality over puritanism, living for others over living for success.
- Both films explore what happens when communities become subject to a grinding puritanism.
- They brought back a sensuousness and emotionalism to art which had been banished by the puritanism of postmodernist theory.
- The poems articulate the function of puritanism as a check against the dangers of untrammelled art.
- His thoroughgoing Puritanism meant that he constantly subjected himself to self-examination.
- He introduced to music a new puritanism, an acute political awareness and diamond-hard intelligence.
- His character has often been explained as the result of his grandmother's puritanism.
- There was a streak of puritanism about the Boultings.
- Such sexual puritanism does little to challenge a conservative view of sex as dangerous and undesirable.
Definition of puritanism in US English:
puritanism
nounˈpyo͝oritnismˈpjʊrɪtnɪsm
1The beliefs or principles of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a secular 'born-again' phenomenon that has its historical origin in Puritanism as part of the American psyche.
- Theologically, Puritanism represents an emphasis within the Reformed Protestant (Calvinist) tradition on intense personal devotion and extreme ethical probity.
- More than a religion, Puritanism was a way of life.
- Puritanism had initially been a movement to expunge remaining elements of Catholicism from the Church of England.
- The disintegration of Puritanism preceded any attempt to impose the Presbyterian system.
- Puritanism made a substantial impact on Anglo-America.
- English Puritanism temporarily triumphed during the English Revolution.
- Many of the precepts of Puritanism survived well into the nineteenth century.
- Boston was an early centre of New England Puritanism.
- Her story of the work ethic begins with its invention in 17th-century Puritanism.
- In his lifetime he saw the English Church sway from extreme Puritanism to near Catholicism.
- 1.1 Censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex.
an era of sexual puritanism
the extreme puritanism of the hardliners grated on people
Example sentencesExamples
- His character has often been explained as the result of his grandmother's puritanism.
- They brought back a sensuousness and emotionalism to art which had been banished by the puritanism of postmodernist theory.
- There was a streak of puritanism about the Boultings.
- Is there some truth in that or is it just latent puritanism?
- Both films explore what happens when communities become subject to a grinding puritanism.
- The poems articulate the function of puritanism as a check against the dangers of untrammelled art.
- Such sexual puritanism does little to challenge a conservative view of sex as dangerous and undesirable.
- His thoroughgoing Puritanism meant that he constantly subjected himself to self-examination.
- He introduced to music a new puritanism, an acute political awareness and diamond-hard intelligence.
- He was a rebellious product of the militant puritanism that shaped so many in the 1950s and early 60s.
- Their story champions freedom over constriction, sensuality over puritanism, living for others over living for success.