英语词汇puritan的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

puritan. The Puritans were originally members of a mid- 16th-century Protestant reformation group that wanted to rid the English Church of all traces of Roman Catholicism. Their name means “pure of heart” and a Puritan was first defined as “an advanced reformer in the Anglican Church.” In time their theology became calvinism, however, and many of them were driven into exile with the accession of James I in En- gland. Immigrating to America, they composed the bulk of the population of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts and Con- necticut. Noted for industry and intellectual intensity, among other fine qualities, they were even more noticeable for their strict morality and absolute reliance on Scripture. It was these latter qualities, often carried to fantastic extremes, that made puritan a synonym for a narrow-minded, excessively religious person blind to the beauty around him.

词汇	puritan
词源	puritan. The Puritans were originally members of a mid- 16th-century Protestant reformation group that wanted to rid the English Church of all traces of Roman Catholicism. Their name means “pure of heart” and a Puritan was first defined as “an advanced reformer in the Anglican Church.” In time their theology became calvinism, however, and many of them were driven into exile with the accession of James I in En- gland. Immigrating to America, they composed the bulk of the population of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts and Con- necticut. Noted for industry and intellectual intensity, among other fine qualities, they were even more noticeable for their strict morality and absolute reliance on Scripture. It was these latter qualities, often carried to fantastic extremes, that made puritan a synonym for a narrow-minded, excessively religious person blind to the beauty around him.
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