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Words related to puritans

Pu·ri·tan
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  • fifth monarchy men

    (during the Commonwealth in the 17th century) a militant sect of Puritans who identified the fifth monarchy with the millennial reign of Christ and who believed they should help to inaugurate that reign by force.

  • new england theology

    Calvinism as modified and interpreted by the descendants of the Puritans in New England, especially Jonathan Edwards, becoming the dominant theology there from about 1730 to 1880.

  • pilgrim

    a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.

  • precisian

    a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.

  • prick-eared

    British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.

  • puritanical

    very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
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