The term "puritanism" has two particularly distinct meanings. First, capitalized as "Puritanism", it denotes that group of English Protestants who dissented from the established English Church in the Colonial Period. Second, as "puritanism", it denotes any attitude or outlook that is very strictly religious while considering bodily pleasures and joys to be unlawful and/or sinful.
To be puritanism is to be a group of English Protests that form in the 16th century to bring religious reform.
Although he desperately wanted to go skinny dipping with the other boys he was a firm follower of puritanism and consequently kept his clothes firmly in place.
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Puritanism spawned several different denominations as outgrowths and detractors, Baptist were one of these.
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John Calvin?
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No one person was responsible for the founding of Puritanism. The puritans began in the early 17th century as an offshoot of Swiss Calvinism.
Yes, Puritanism is capitalized because it refers to a specific religious movement and ideology that originated in 16th-century England.
"-Ism" is not a prefix but a suffix, a group of letters added to the end of a word in order to form another word. The prefix "-ism" may connote an action or practice (as in criticism), an attitude or outlook (as racism), a theory or doctrine (as Platonism, Puritanism, militarism), or a peculiar characteristic or trait (as colloquialism or Hebraism).
Puritanism.
The correct spelling is Puritanism.