puritanism

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Puritanism shattered into multiple feuding sects and collapsed, and 18th century Enlightenment values of cosmopolitan secular government were ushered in.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

He might have vanished into Boston history were it not for the British, who spectacularly and catastrophically failed to understand what made Massachusetts citizens, forged by an independent version of Puritanism, tick.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022

Nor were his counterparts in the New World, where Puritanism found space to thrive.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

He strongly supported the “high church” faction of the Anglican church just as Puritanism among the common people was growing, and he began to openly encroach on parliamentary authority.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

It was his Puritanism that made Moody try to stimulate the conscience of his land by means of "An Ode in Time of Hesitation," his best sustained long poem, and his most passionate utterance.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce