puritanism
Noun
Meaning
The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
It would annoy me less that we're heading into a new puritanical era if the puritanism concerned itself about things that matter.
Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
It is the spirit of Salem-the corrupting influence of Puritanism which in itself is perversion of the Stoic ideal-infecting what remains of a nation which could have set an example to the world.
The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation.