puritanism

     

A Puritan of 16th an 17th century England was a Protestant (usually Calvinist) advocate of "purity" of worship, doctrine, and personal and group morality.

Trivia about puritanism

  • The name of this British offshoot of Calvinism has become synonymous with repression of pleasure
  • Scott, as a Pilgrim, you must adhere to this stern Protestant movement, an offshoot of Calvinism
  • The practices of some extreme Protestants of the Reformation era; or any moral strictness