puritan

puritan
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(Puritan)a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church under Elizabeth I as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship
清教徒（英国16世纪末和17世纪的基督教新教徒中的一派，认为伊丽莎白领导的宗教改革不彻底，寻求简化并规范化拜神形式）
■a person with censorious moral beliefs, especially about pleasure and sex
（尤指在快乐和性方面）严格遵循道德信仰的人
The Puritans were Protestants who, dissatisfied with the elements of Catholicism retained by the Elizabethan religious settlement, sought a further purification of the Church from supposedly unscriptural forms. At first they tried to rid the Church of ornaments, vestments, organs, etc.; from 1570 the more extreme attacked the institution of episcopacy itself, wishing to substitute government by Church elders (Presbyterianism). Oppressed under James I and Charles I, in particular by Archbishop Laud, many (such as the Pilgrim Fathers) emigrated to the Netherlands and America. The Civil War of the 1640s led to the temporary pre-eminence of Puritanism. Soon, however, the movement fragmented into sects, and the term Puritan began to be less used; after the Restoration such people tended to be called Dissenters or Nonconformists

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(一般作 Puritan)of or relating to the Puritans
（与）清教徒（有关）的
■having or displaying censorious moral beliefs, especially about pleasure and sex
（尤指在快乐和性方面）严格遵循道德信仰的

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puritanism
noun

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