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Puritans strictly religious and morally disciplined colonists. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 551] See : Discipline How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But the figure which most attracted the public eye, and stirred up the deepest feeling, was the Episcopal clergyman of King's Chapel, riding haughtily among the magistrates in his priestly vestments, the fitting representatives of prelacy and persecution, the union of church and state, and all those abominations which had driven the Puritans to the wilderness. Saying which, he resumed the proud and sombre bearing peculiar at that time to Puritans. As England grew Puritan, the people began to look askance at the theater, for the Puritans had always been its enemies. |
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