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Example sentences for: puritan

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Klein has a horror of what he rather predictably perceives to be a New Puritan movement in America attempting to eliminate bad-for-you indulgences such as fat or cigarettes.
Legal gambling brings out the latent puritan in many Americans.
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.
The puritan crusaders of the North and the alienated populists of the South may share common political enemies, but little else.
Puritan stupidity didn't only refuse him that, it withheld his right to deny it.