Püritenler çok önemliydiler. - Puritans were very important.
İlk yerleşimciler hayli eğitimliydiler ve Püritenizm'i ilk Amerikan ilkesi olarak belirlediler. - First settlers were highly educated and set Puritanism as first American principle.
Protestants who separated from the Church of England because they wished to purify the Church; also known as Separatists
the purifying element within the Church of Enlgand, committed to restoring an intorlerance of Catholic formalism and ritualism
Sought to purify the faith in Britain during the first century after Henry VIII separated the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church They variously inhabited the established church, set up alternative church hierarchies, fostered independent congregations, and spilled over into dissident movements such as the Quakers This was a derogatory term, actually, that they did not apply to themselves
disapproval Puritan attitudes are based on strict moral or religious principles and often involve disapproval of physical pleasures. Paul was someone who certainly had a puritan streak in him
disapproval You describe someone as a puritan when they live according to strict moral or religious principles, especially when they disapprove of physical pleasures. Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan
morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
A term first used about 1570 for English Protestants who wanted to "purify" the Church of England of ceremony and ritual not found in the scriptures At first they simply wanted to reform their church, but by 1620, many were "separatists" who wanted to start their own churches There were never many separatist Puritans in England because they tended emigrate to America During the time of the Parliamentary Wars (or Civil War) 1642-1649, Puritans in England were called "Roundheads" because of the way they cropped their hair So, Col Daniel Axtell was a Roundhead The Royalists who supported the king were "Cavaliers" with long, flowing hair All of the English settlements in Massachusetts--both the Plymouth Colony of 1620 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1630--were settled by Puritans Puritans included people from all of English society and from all parts of England They were all over the map and it's hard to make generalizations
n any member of a Protestant group in England and the American colonies who, in the 16th and 17th century, wanted to make the Church of England simpler in its services and stricter about morals
One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; originally, a term of reproach