Puritans is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PURITANS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PURITAN, a person who is strictly moral in conduct
• a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
• a person with censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to the Puritans
• having or displaying censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a rigorously moral or religious person

Words related to PURITANS

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How to use PURITANS in a sentence

• And, say what you will, in spite of all the disagreeable sides of the Puritan character, it was the Puritans who gave a new impulse to civilization in its higher sense.
• The change which took place among the Jesuits arose from the same causes as the change which has taken place among Methodists and Quakers and Puritans.
• She was humbled with the cavaliers and hated the Puritans.
• We can partly understand what those poor Puritans meant.
• When theatres were shut up by the Puritans, plays were acted privately at the houses of the nobility, who made collections for the actors.
• Some of them were written expressly in ridicule of the Puritans.
• The combat was a short one, and in a few minutes the Puritans were flying in all directions.
• Mazarin is becoming as strict as those pot-hat Puritans yonder in England.
• Pulaski, 121 Pullman strike, 465 Pure food act, 523 Puritans, 3, 7, 40ff.
• The great Puritans lock hands with Luther and Savonarola.
• In New England, in 1692, nine persons were hanged by the Puritans for witchcraft.
• These Puritans suffered so much persecuted in England that, in 1607, many of them went over to Holland, and lived ten or twelve years at Amsterdam and Leyden.
• The Woman in Scarlet was still preached against and feared as became the sons and daughters of the Puritans.
• She was a daughter of the Puritans, and had the blood and high courage of her race.
• It was now that the Holy Inquisition came into existence, and after forty years of slaughter these Albigensian Cathari or Puritans seemed exterminated.
• He was a man of great learning and rare sweetness of temper, and was moreover distinguished for a broad and tolerant habit of mind too seldom found among the Puritans of that day.
• Their embarkation in April, 1630, was the signal for a general movement on the part of the English Puritans.
• In his theology he agreed, as a Dutch Calvinist, more nearly with the Puritans than with the Church of England.
• This is a thing constantly forgotten in judging of ascetics and Puritans in old times.
• After some hesitation, the Virginians accepted the authority of Cromwell and the Puritans.
• To this end we ask the loyal women of the nation to meet in the Church of the Puritans, New York, on Thursday, the 14th of May next.
• On May 9 and 10 the Equal Rights Association held its first anniversary in New York, at the Church of the Puritans.
• This was the last convention ever held in the old historic Church of the Puritans.

Similar words containing PURITAN without suffix s

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