puritanism

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

Mencken, who defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy,” these anti-woke warriors seem to live in dread that someone, somewhere, might be acting rationally and graciously.

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.

The Pilgrims who initially arrived in Plymouth practiced an extreme form of Puritanism that broke with the Church of England.

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.”