0 a person who is strict and disapproves of many kinds of enjoyment. -- người khắt khe
1 formerly, in England and America, a member of a religious group wanting to make church worship etc simpler and plainer. -- người theo Thanh giáo
Furthermore, it is clear that puritans would act on religious issues with their less zealous brethren when the civic interest was at stake.
Thus, far from appearing as annoying busybodies or self-indulgent zealots, puritans on this issue took advantage of a rare opportunity to appear downright sensible.
In their fear of idolatry, puritans had descended instead into sacrilege.
This was an argument which appealed deeply to the biblicist and primitivist cast of the puritan mind.
He had a driving ambition to succeed combined with a puritan's belief in the sanctity of unremitting toil.
Radical tolerationists were not, therefore, premature advocates of the permissive society, and they rarely repudiated the puritan campaign for the reformation of manners.
The fact is that activism in religion cannot be equated with puritan subversion.
She argues from a 'puritan' pre-partition nationalist perspective and believes that women's liberation will only come after political liberation has been achieved.
