What parliamentarian communities incontrovertibly had in common, though, was the fact that they had been colonized bypuritanism.
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Royalism was born out of a desire to squash the power ofpuritanismand a desire to maintain the authority of the king.
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The antinomians represented a new strain ofpuritanism, one developed in conscious contradistinction to the rigorous asceticism of mainstream puritan piety.
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Much of this revisionist case is irrefutable and supplies an important corrective to naive assumptions aboutpuritanismand liberty.
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It developed no reputation forpuritanism, nor did it establish a town preacher.
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There is a reflex apparent in early modern studies by which 'puritanism' can be proven by no more forceful an argument that the absence of excessive rhetorical ornament in preaching.
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This country had the opportunity of being governed in the 17th century by undilutedpuritanismfollowed by reaction of the opposite quality.
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But no one in his right mind could have expected the zealotry—indeed the newpuritanism—with which those regulations are being enacted.
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To say this is not idealism, orpuritanism; it is plain common sense for the nation.
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Those conditions represent a kind of materialisticpuritanismwhere there is a tremendous determination to get on.
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I also wanted this regulation to remain flexible enough to limit certain constraints of conversion or excesses of organicpuritanism.
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They are also not viewed as a race given topuritanism.
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That form ofpuritanismis absurd and bizarre in the current mores of our country.
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It is full of newpuritanism, but it must know that its sins will catch it out.
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Instead, at that time they substituted the smug, sanctimonious noises about lame ducks, and, in a frenzy of capitalistpuritanism, cancelled anything to do with a subsidised service.
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