A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.