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Meanings of puritan in English
Synonyms
Examples for "blue"
Examples for "blue"
1
Semihard; blue; goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound.
2
A sea of blue state police cars stood motionless ahead of them.
3
For example, left hand to blue crimp, right foot to green pinch.
4
The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue.
5
The wind blows soft; the sky is blue; the sun shines bright
1
Difficult, of course, for one of my naturally puritanical bent, but possible.
2
Many young people are attracted to Salafism, a puritanical branch of Islam.
3
I am sometimes inclined to be quite puritanical when defining the western.
4
Too much tolerance too fast can produce a puritanical or fascist backlash.
5
The character of the kirk was that of a democratic, puritanical theocracy.
1
The rigour in England is mere puritanic hypocrisy, shortsightedness and racial self-esteem.
2
In this instance, the populace are more puritanic than the magistrate.
3
Richard had long ceased to regard these matters from a strictly puritanic standpoint.
4
The primitive Church was very puritanic concerning the Christian spirit.
5
His political zeal was a frenzy; and his religion was deeply tinged with puritanic gloom.
Usage of puritan in English
1
And the little puritan of fifteen heard the voice of his God:
2
A man who had the reputation of a saint too; a puritan.
3
But despite its puritan bent, ManServants also represents a long-overdue role reversal.
4
The puritan soldiers destroyed the profusion of statues that decorated this church.
5
Was Zhang so anxious to maintain the communist puritan image of Guan?
6
You are a puritan and in your heart you despise sensual pleasures.
7
Probably king, prelate and puritan, all found their own account in it.
8
You embody for me all the things my puritan grandmothers stood for.
9
Unlike John the Baptist, He was neither a teetotaller nor a puritan.
10
His puritan conscience was enraged at petty thefts, petty forgeries, petty larcenies.
11
For, ladies and gentlemen, while we are pious, we are not puritan.
12
She hath read me such lessons as none but a puritan could.'
13
Miss Mary, with an anxious forehead under her puritan hair, said nothing.
14
Aldrich's mother was a Bostonian puritan who did not approve of actresses.
15
Of all false doctrines that of the sour-faced, joyless puritan is the falsest.
16
She was of the puritan temper that loves to scatter irrefutable moral logic.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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