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- noun : a
puritanical person - adjective : acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating
modesty ), especially with regard topleasure ,nudity andsex
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Examples
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According to this doctrine, which I call the puritan heresy, the duality resolves itself into a struggle between the spirit and the flesh.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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Doubtless it will reach your father's house ere long, if it be not, as is more likely, already there, for it is the vile work of one they call a puritan, though where even the writer can vainly imagine the purity of such work to lie, let the pamphlet itself raise the question.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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Doubtless it will reach your father's house ere long, if it be not, as is more likely, already there, for it is the vile work of one they call a puritan, though where even the writer can vainly imagine the purity of such work to lie, let the pamphlet itself raise the question.
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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The practical vs. the puritan is a choice that cuts to the heart of all politics.
Rhoades Alderson: To D.C., ♥ N.E.: Primary Choices for the Netroots 2010
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The practical vs. the puritan is a choice that cuts to the heart of all politics.
Rhoades Alderson: To D.C., ♥ N.E.: Primary Choices for the Netroots Rhoades Alderson 2010
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I would scarce send to the Vicomte a reader who was in quest of what we may call puritan morality.
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Lord's day at his house, (which he slighted, not loving to be called a puritan) Mr. Welch came one day to his gate and calling him out to tell him, that he had a message from God to shew him, that because he had slighted the advice given him from the Lord, and would not restrain the profanation of the Lord's day committed in his bounds; therefore the
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I suspect its some kind of puritan overcompensation for their long-term flirtation with those wicked, wicked Kennedy boys.
SurveyUSA: Hillary And Romney Way Ahead In Massachusetts 2009
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Yes, people love to throw around the word "puritan," but do they even know what it really means?
Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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Yes, people love to throw around the word "puritan," but do they even know what it really means?
What is Puritanism? elena maria vidal 2009
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