puritanism

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The case, however, made Comstock’s name synonymous with “prudery, Puritanism and officious meddling,” according to Broun and Leech.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2023

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

Bob found the thread connecting these giants of America’s tumultuous, formative years “in their pluralism, in their liberation from Puritanism, in their respect for mind.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2020

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

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

Moody was a Puritan, through and through, and like all modern literary Puritans he was desperately ashamed of his Puritanism.

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