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Puritans founded Harvard University. Puritans' Sunday church services could last for up to six hours.
Browse. Puritan definition: a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline. See examples of PURITAN used in a sentence.
The history of the Puritans can be traced back to the first Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI, the formation of an identifiable Puritan movement in the 1560s and ends in a decline in the mid-18th century.
