Anti-puritanism
the principles and practices of the .
(sometimes lowercase) extreme strictness in moral or religious matters, often to excess; rigid austerity.
historical examples
crashaw was another; and whitgift was a third fellow whose name stands for anti-puritanism.
cambridge mildred anna rosalie tuker
n.
1570s, from puritan + -ism. originally in reference to specific doctrines; from 1590s of excessive moral strictness generally. in this sense, famously defined by h.l. mencken (1920) as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.”
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