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Fanciful Puritan Names
Fanciful Puritan Names When in 1559 Elizabeth I (1533-1603) became the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, following the Act of Supremacy, the Puritan movement appeared as a reaction against a worldly, political hierarchy considered as inappropriate for spiritual matters. The movement continued in England in the 17th century, under the Stuarts. The first Massachusetts immigrants who left England in 1620 on the Mayflower ship took the Puritan movement to America, where they established a very strong Puritan community. Puritans are generally known for their intransigent moral principles, for their deep knowledge of the Bible and for their passionate quest for purity of worship, which should be based only on the Bible. Few know today that they were also the authors of some unusual name patterns. Puritans feared God, but certainly they did not fear ridicule when they coined names like Chastity, Morality, Kill-sin, Fight-the-good-faith-of-faith or Learn-wisdom. Who says Puritans were austere and stiff? In fact, their names were so extravagant and elaborate that we might say that, in what names are concerned, Puritans were actually experimental and revolutionary. Of course, Puritans drew their inspiration from the Bible, which they knew thoroughly. Daniel, Abraham, Nathaniel, Samuel, Ezekiah were good Puritan names, but the names of insignificant biblical characters were just as good as the famous ones, when the Bible was opened and a name was chosen randomly. All non-biblical saint names, very trendy in the Middle Ages, were rejected, as being corrupt and decadent. At some point, the virtues (Faith, Charity, Mercy, Patience, Grace, Hope, Prudence, Temperance) were coined as names, to better reflect the Puritan state of mind. Puritans got totally avant-garde (without being aware of it, of course) when they tried to eliminate all worldly hints from their names, and started to use long slogans and moving words as names. These slogan names are cited today as mere historical curiosities, and seem almost unbelievable: * Fear-the-Lord,
* If-Christ-had- not-died-for- thee-thou-hadst- been-damned,
* Search-the-scriptures,
* The-Lord-is-near Most of the Puritan nomenclature seems today weird and grotesque. Grace and Hope are among the few Puritan names that have survived, but their significance is blurred.
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