Both Uses of
Puritans
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.†
Chpt 6 *
- Yes: there was to be, as Lord Henry had prophesied, a new Hedonism that was to recreate life, and to save it from that harsh, uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival.†
Chpt 11
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.)