Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
American society is still puritanical.
I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
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.
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
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.
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.