puritanly

comparative more puritanly · superlative most puritanly

1. Alternative letter-case form of Puritanly.

   Many a puritanly descended maiden feels the molten drops in her veins from some untamed, unpuritan ancestor.

   1890 January 18, Deliverance Dingle, “The Library”, in The Art Interchange: A Household Journal, volume XXIV, number 2, New York, N.Y., page 20, column 2

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   Every absurd prejudice, so puritanly ingrained in the minds of most middle class divisions and sections and even amongst the more cultivated, was endlessly repeated upon with the usual banalities in the large correspondence of their friends and others.

   1921, Sarah Bernhardt, chapter XXI, in The Idol of Paris, London: Cecil Palmer, page 169

   The man, hat in hand, said his name was De Groot, Peter de Groot, smiling down on her puritanly prim little figure with a question in his eyes whether the name itself meant anything to her.

   1930, Frederick Irving Anderson, Book of Murder, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 87

   This included such details as one ambassador’s coloured worsted suit with gold braid, the Banqueting House in Whitehall hung with tapestries designed by Raphael, but also the information that Marquis Hamilton served as chamberlain, since the puritanly affected Earl of Pembroke was sick, or feigning sickness.

   2014, Paul Arblaster, From Ghent to Aix: How They Brought the News in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1550–1700, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 150

alternative puritanly

1. not comparableIn the manner of a Puritan; puritanically.