Definition of "puritanism" [puritanism]

• Strict and austere religious conduct (noun)

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• "There was not a trace of Manicheanism in him, and he called puritanism, in his biography of Louis XIV, an “evil out of the pit”, meaning the pit of hell."
• "To what degree this new puritanism is due to indoctrination or to the fear of retribution is a matter of speculation."
• "But the Joyce-Eliot group come later in time, puritanism is not their main adversary, they are able from the start to ‘see through’ most of the things that their predecessors had fought for."