puritanism 的定义
- the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- extreme strictness in moral or religious matters, often to excess; rigid austerity.
puritanism 近义词
austerity
puritanism 的近义词 2 个
更多puritanism例句
- American women expressed their support and impatience when fighting puritanism and conservatism using Femen tactics.
- H.L. Mencken famously defined puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
- Never mind that Bill Clinton remains living proof of the silliness of modern puritanism.
- She talked to Marlow Stern about losing her virginity, Charlie Sheen, and sexual Puritanism.
- Positive thinking is Puritanism with a capitalist face, she believes.
- Some blathering parsons say that this blessed Mission is teaching men to talk cant and Puritanism.
- Quite "continental," you perceive; and a long way from the Puritanism of our ancestors!
- The American plutocracy has developed upon a superstructure of Puritanism, and therefore, in America, hypocrisy is necessary.
- At its close the University was a hot-bed of Puritanism, where the fiercest tenets of Calvin reigned supreme.
- The accession of the young Queen heralded one of those moods of puritanism which are chronic with English society.