Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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sternness | Yes | No | No | No |
Puritanism | Yes | No | No | No |
sternness (noun) | Puritanism (noun) |
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uncompromising resolution | strictness and austerity in conduct and religion |
the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding | the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects) |