puritan 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- a person who is strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so.
- of or relating to the Puritans.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a moral puritan; puritanical.
puritan 近义词
puritanical
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- A Puritan minister incited fury by pushing inoculation against a smallpox epidemicCritics argued it was playing God, and it was banned in several colonies.
- Onesimus, an enslaved man in Boston, taught the procedure to Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who in turn urged doctors to inoculate the public during a 1721 smallpox outbreak.
- A Puritan minister incited fury by pushing inoculation against a smallpox epidemicAcross the Charles River in Boston, where the smallpox outbreak had begun, the board of health chairman wasn’t so mild.
- Indeed, puritan Japan is decades behind the puritan United States when it comes to sex.
- At least in premodern Europe and Puritan North America, witch-hunting follows certain patterns.
- Like the Puritan ancestors he never succeeded in escaping, he found fault with just about everything, especially himself.
- Eventually, Charles I will be overthrown, and the puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell will take power.
- The mindsets of both Cavalier and Puritan took root in the New World, and the experiment launched in 1776 continues.
- Pipes continued to appear upon the stage until its abolition (in company with the Prayer Book) by the Puritan rulers.
- The Puritan Mission has civilised him and hundreds on hundreds more, and I wish the parsons had done just half as much.
- The persecution under which Jonson suffered was due to the steady growth of Puritan principles.
- The fires of the Puritan faction had smouldered out; those of the Jacobite frenzy had hardly had time to rekindle.
- At this period the alchemist is represented by his descendant as a Puritan impregnated with the secret doctrine of Robert Fludd.