All 3 Uses of
Puritans
in
Twelfth Night
- Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of Puritan.†
Scene 2.3 *
- What, for being a Puritan? thy exquisite reason, dear knight?†
Scene 2.3
- The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser: an affectioned ass that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths; the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellences, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.†
Scene 2.3
Definition:
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(Puritans) English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
(a Protestant is any of the Western Christian religious denominations that broke off from the Catholic Church. In the US, the best known are Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians.)