Puritan
the name given, at first in contempt, to those clergymen perhaps in c and others in the reign of the English Queen Elizabeth, who desired a simpler, and what they considered to be a purer form of worship than the civil and ecclesiastical authorities sanctioned. The Puritan controversy commenced as early as 1550, when Hooper, appointed to the see of Gloucester, refused to be consecrated in the ecclesiastical vestments then in use. New England was settled very largely by the Puritans. Also, one who has severely strict notions as to what is proper or who is strict in his religious duties.
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