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Pu·ri·tan·ism
pyuh rih t nih zm
Noun
1. the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects)
2. strictness and austerity in conduct and religion
"宗教生活的严格性",1570年代,来自 Puritan + -ism。最初是指特定的教义和实践; 从1590年代开始,指过度的道德严格性。在这个意义上,它被 H.L.门肯(1920年)著名地定义为“萦绕心头的恐惧,即某个地方可能有人感到快乐。”
The first known use of puritanism was in 1573
1 Such views may be considered demeaning by many, and modern feminists will reject the accusation of Puritanism as a facile slur.
2 Cultures seem to swing between extremes of Puritanism & permissiveness; rigid order & disorder; control & "freedom."
3 Nor were his counterparts in the New World, where Puritanism found space to thrive.
4 The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them.
性关系上党所倡导的禁欲主义,对他们一概不适用.
5 Unlike New England, whose official religion was Puritanism, Pennsylvania did not establish an official church.
6 Cato’s admirers thus tied liberty and equality to a secular version of Puritanism.
7 The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.
作为一种文化遗传的美国清教徒教规对美国的道德价值观有很大的影响.
8 The Pilgrims who initially arrived in Plymouth practiced an extreme form of Puritanism that broke with the Church of England.
9 She had not caught on fast enough in this country, held back by its twin tendencies toward racism and Puritanism, but she and her feathers and bananas were an instant sensation in France.
10 Bob found the thread connecting these giants of America’s tumultuous, formative years “in their pluralism, in their liberation from Puritanism, in their respect for mind.”
11 Actress Catherine Deneuve made headlines last week in an open letter with 99 other French women that said #MeToo amounted to Puritanism and was fueled by a hatred of men.
12 Mencken expressed himself, for instance in his definition of Puritanism: “The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
13 Maybe it’s because I was raised as a Protestant and became an environmentalist, but I’ve long been struck by the spiritual kinship of environmentalism and New England Puritanism.
14 Someone asked if they had bought any cars and the curious Puritanism of the north showed in their faces.
15 Mencken, who defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy,” these anti-woke warriors seem to live in dread that someone, somewhere, might be acting rationally and graciously.
16 Puritanism influenced Nathaniel Hawthorne greatly.
在纳撒尼尔.霍桑一生的创作中,清教主义对他产生了深刻的影响.
17 Instead, however, they have suddenly turned into a bunch of Left Bank cafe intellectuals, scoffing at silly American Puritanism as they sip absinthe and flick ashes from their unfiltered Gauloises.
18 It warned of a new type of "Puritanism" and insisted men should be "free to pester women".
19 One problem with this love is that it’s been difficult for filmmakers to translate it to the American screen, which has long been locked in the grip of a stultifying, Eros-killing Puritanism.
20 George Fox had founded the Society of Friends in England in the late 1640s, having grown dissatisfied with Puritanism and the idea of predestination.