puritanism

• It is therefore easy to understand how this puritanism was a thing serious, weighty, and terrible, in Roman life; and how from it could be born the tragedies we have to recount. —  The Women of the Caesars
• Livia had been almost a vestal in her fight for the puritanism of old Rome: Messalina most ardently and violently fought to destroy it. —  The Women of the Caesars
• But you still hung, burnt at the pyre, slashed the throats, raped, murdered and pillaged the "savages" or those who would not adopt Christianity or your Victorian-era puritanism, which is responsible and has influenced much of the homophobia in many countries in Asia and Africa. —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
• Libertarian Besides unpopular economic arguments, resentment against the less fortunate, puritanism, and —  Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
• Narrow-minded dogmatism and busybody puritanism are among the world's worst scourges. —  Indybay newswire

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