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The Pilgrims who we remember on Thanksgiving were Puritans who came to the New Word.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
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The Puritans banned Christmas because they associated it with drunkenness and other misbehavior.
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These people were something Germanic and sectarian, crossbred with seventh-generation Puritans — an industrious but fervent mix that produced, in addition to the usual collection of virtuous, lumpen farmers, three circuit riders, two inept land speculators, and one petty embezzler — chancers with a visionary streak and one eye on the horizon. (source)
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He was a child of the Puritan work ethic. (source)Puritan = of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries who stressed hard work above pleasure
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"It's these Puritans," Kit sighed. "I'll never understand them. Why do they want life to be so solemn?" (source)Puritans = English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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The Puritans, only a few years after him, saw failure in business—ruined crops, bankruptcy, financial mismanagement, even disease in one's herd—as clear evidence of God's displeasure and therefore of moral shortcomings. (source)
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In Puritan England, about 300 years ago, it was against the law to wear the color red. (source)Puritan = any of the English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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The Puritans, who are few amongst us now, and sorely pressed, had the running of this village then. (source)Puritans = English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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But the forties were really far worse, a particularly ghastly period for Eros, shakily bridging as they did the time between the puritanism of our forefathers and the arrival of public pornography.† (source)puritanism = a religious movement of the 16th and 17th centuries to purify Protestant Christianity of rituals of the Catholic Church, and which stressed hard work above pleasure
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In at least some cases, the menfolk's notions of propriety were markedly more European than the surrounding Yankee Puritan norm. (source)Puritan = related to English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans. (source)Puritans = Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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And the sexual revolution is a step in the wrong direction—an anti-puritanism which has only disastrous results.† (source)puritanism = a religious movement of the 16th and 17th centuries to purify Protestant Christianity of rituals of the Catholic Church, and which stressed hard work above pleasure
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She's only a few years older than your brother but acts like a Puritan schoolmarm. (source)Puritan = an English Protestant who in the 16th and 17th centuries stressed hard work above pleasure
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We're puritans, that's why.† (source)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
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The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them.† (source)puritanism = a religious movement of the 16th and 17th centuries to purify Protestant Christianity of rituals of the Catholic Church, and which stressed hard work above pleasure
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Jonathan Edwards, a Puritan minister, resolved never to do anything out of revenge. (source)Puritan = an English Protestant who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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