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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clement combined his highly positive evaluation of culture with a severe puritanism towards any concessions to polytheistic myth and cult.
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For those raised in the prudery of puritanism or the celibacy-conscious preoccupations of Catholicism this ran against the grain.
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It was in no sense a revival of the political dissent symbolised by Cromwellian puritanism .
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She saw it as one of the major manifestations of eighteenth-century philanthropic puritanism .
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That was a false and sanctimonious puritanism , such as had dogged the Inquisitor's own youth.
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The disapproving proscriptions of puritanism could not have squeezed all impropriety from the area.
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The feeling is that they should be replaced by buildings constructed according to the canons of Wahhabi puritanism .
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There was, as we have said before, no final triumph for puritanism .