All 5 Uses of
Puritans
in
The Crying of Lot 49
- Altogether, a most anti-clerical scene, perhaps intended as a sop to the Puritans of the time (a useless gesture since none of them ever went to plays, regarding them for some reason as immoral).†
Chpt 3Puritans = English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
- You guys, you're like Puritans are about the Bible.†
Chpt 3 *
- No Puritan ever got that violent.†
Chpt 6Puritan = 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
- Robert Scurvham had founded, during the reign of Charles I, a sect of most pure Puritans.†
Chpt 6Puritans = English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
- Remember that Puritans were utterly devoted, like literary critics, to the Word.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(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.) -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
As a common noun (not capitalized unless at the start of a sentence), puritan or puritanical can refer to someone who is very strict -- especially about religious principles or proper behavior.