Crossword-Solution: PURITANS
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| PURITANS | anagram | RASPUTIN, SNATIRUP |
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| Early Maryland settlers | 1 answer |
| Early settlers in America. | 1 answer |
| Group living at zero latitude? | 1 answer |
| Killjoys, prudes | 1 answer |
| Our English forefathers. | 1 answer |
| People who no what they like? | 1 answer |
| Proper folks | 1 answer |
| Roundheads | 1 answer |
| Early New England religious reformers | 1 answer |
| Early settlers | 2 answers |
| Bluenoses | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PURITANS (5)
Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself.
Vivian was a daughter of the Puritans, the Puritan strain in her disposition had been mingled with another element.
They must be Puritans to their finger-tips; anything but gay!” “No, they are not gay,” Felix admitted.
Like most of the other Puritans of New England, he was a determined opponent to slavery, and it was from his lips that I received those lessons which tinged every action of my life.
All branches of the Protestant Church--Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican--vied with each other in denouncing the Copernican doctrine as contrary to Scripture; and, at a later period, the Puritans showed the same tendency.
Quotes with PURITANS (3)
If God rewards us on earth for good deeds — the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it — then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.
... the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.
There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs of the Puritans. Puritanical in that the point becomes the demonstration of one's own virtue rather than the realization of results. And puritanical because the somber pleasure of condemning things is the most enduring part of that legacy, along with the sense of personal superiority that comes from pleasure denied. The bleakness of…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).