Opposed to sensual pleasures

Usage examples of puritan.

It must be remarked, that the Puritans were extremely averse to the raising of this ornament to the capital.

The thorough-paced Puritans were distinguishable by the sourness and austerity of their manners, and by their aversion to all pleasure and society.

The last of the old-world Puritans, he departed poring over his well-thumbed Bible, and proclaiming that the troubles of his country arose, not from his own narrow and corrupt administration, but from some departure on the part of his fellow burghers from the stricter tenets of the dopper sect.

That ride, and others like it, had become proverbial among Puritan traders: examplars of Industry.

Puritan Separatists who believed in no overarching structure for the church beyond their own, naturally fissive local gatherings.

But the evening had filled in Furber too, and his fierce puritan intensity.

The strongest overboiling of English Puritan contempt of a gabbler, would not stop women from liking it.

You think me godless and a libertine but it is to me, me, me, not the black crows of Puritans that daily infest this house and shall not infest it more that the task of improving the word of the Lord is given.

No wonder that in an age in which courtiers and theatrehaunters were turning Romanists by the dozen, and the priest-ridden queen was the chief patroness of the theatre, the Puritans should have classed players and Jesuits in the same category, and deduced the parentage of both alike from the father of lies.

After that, I doubt if the court of Charles the Second was regarded by the Puritans with a greater abhorrence than was Mohair by the good ladies of Asquith.

New England school-system, the Puritan code, the ungenial climate, the absence of chivalry.

This earl was a great hypocrite, a pretender to the strictest religion, an encourager of the Puritans, and founder of hospitals.

There were other friends and classmates, one of them a natural humorist of the liveliest sort, who would have been quarantined in any Puritan port, his laugh was so potently contagious.

By the adoption of the new psalmody the Puritan and Presbyterian churches, perhaps not consciously, but none the less actually, yielded the major premiss of the only argument by which liturgical worship was condemned on principle.

The masochistic desire to be exploited that passes as the collective desire of his audience seems almost as perverse as the Puritan desire to be scourged by God.