All 13 Uses of

Puritans
in
Year of Wonders

And people liked not to hear the rector calling him Anteros, after one of the old Puritans told them it was the name of a pagan idol.
Chpt 1

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

When I made so bold as to ask Mr. Mompellion about it, he had only laughed and said that even Puritans should recall that pagans, too, are children of God and their stories part of His creation.
Chpt 1

The Puritans, who are few amongst us now, and sorely pressed, had the running of this village then.
Chpt 1 *

She was a decent girl and watchful with the children but Puritan in her ways, thinking that laughter and fun are ungodly.
Chpt 2

Puritan = of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure

When he had ascertained I was not by any means of a Puritan bent, he shared with me some tales of the bawdiness and carousing he had witnessed in the city after the king sailed home from exile.
Chpt 2

And since Sam had died I'd been in the one shapeless smock of rough serge, Puritan black, innocent of any adornment.
Chpt 2

Puritan = like that of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure

Even as our pastor then, the old Puritan Stanley, denounced the litanies of the saints and the idolatrous prayers of the Papists for Mary, I clung to the words he decried.
Chpt 2

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

At that, she wrung her hands, and I could see that her girlish heart was at war with her Puritan spine.
Chpt 2

Puritan = related to Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure

For all the years of my childhood, when the Puritans held sway here, we wore for our outer garments only what they called the Sadd Colors—black for preference, or the dark brown called Dying Leaf.
Chpt 3

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

The Puritans who had ministered to us here had held that all actions and thoughts could be only one of two natures: godly and right, or Satanic and evil.
Chpt 3

Mr. Mompellion was conferring with Thomas Stanley, the Puritan who had quit our parish more than three years since, on Saint Bartholomew's Day, in the Year of Our Lord 1662.
Chpt 6

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

Mr. Stanley was a sincere man, uncommonly gentle for a Puritan and no fanatic, but still his Sunday had been a severe Sabbath and his church had been a cheerless place, innocent of lace or polished brass and stinting even in the beauty of its prayers.
Chpt 6

He had never yet worn such a thing—coming as he did into the pulpit vacated by a Puritan, he had chosen to bear himself plainly so as not to inflame passions on matters that he deemed insignificant to the manner of our worship.
Chpt 14

Definitions:

(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.)
(2) (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.