Favorite Puritan Names
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Supposedly Puritans sometimes chose a random word from the Bible to use for their children's names. That would explain some of their more...interesting choices.
You just can't make this up.
- -Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned
- Abstinence
- Agony
- Ashes
- Barzillai
- Divine-Authority
- Fear
- Fight-the-Good-Fight-of-Faith
- Flee-fornication
- Forsaken
- Godlye
- Handmaid
- Hate-bad
- Hate-evil
- Hearsay
- Helpless
- Humiliation
- Increase
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One Puritan virtue name unlikely to thrive in the 21st century.
- If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-
- Jesus-Christ-Came-Into-The-World-To-Save