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Example sentences for: puritan

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Even so, the Protestant pietism of many Germanic Americans meshed neatly with the Puritan religious culture of New Englanders and their western cousins, while socialist enthusiasms were easily merged with Social Gospel Protestantism in the northern-tier states.
With rue and the beautiful Puritan pansies.
In spite of this neo-Puritan trends towards PC `politically correct' nomenclature, with all the presure to conform that it brings, there are still sometimes perfectly good reasons for changing the name of a place.
Legal gambling brings out the latent puritan in many Americans.
Even this stiff old Puritan never supposes that it is only weak, unprincipled men who lie under such circumstances.