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PURITANISM (Lat. puritas, purity)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PURITANISM (See also:Lat. puritas, purity) , the name given—originally perhaps in a hostile sense on the See also:analogy of Catharism (see See also:CATHARS)—tO the See also:movement for greater strictness of See also:life and simplicity in See also:worship which See also:grew up in the See also:Church of See also:England in the 16th See also:century among those who thought that there had not been a sufficient divergence from the See also:Roman Church, and which ultimately led to the rise of a number of separatist denominations. See also:Thomas See also:Fuller (Church See also:History) traces the earliest use of the See also:term "Puritan" to 1564. The terms " Precisian," " Puritan," " Presbyterian," were all used by See also:Archbishop See also:Parker in his letters about this See also:time as nicknames for the same party, and ten years later the name was in See also:common use.

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