puritanically

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1. In a puritanical manner.

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1. Alternative letter-case form of puritanically.

   In this view it wants color, passion, it is too self-conscious and prudish, not to say Puritanically mock-modest.

   1887 January, Charles Dudley Warner, “New Orleans”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXIV, number CCCCXL, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 194, column 2

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   However, Anne was not at all surprised, when on the very evening of the Prince’s departure, old Mrs. Humphreys, a venerable-looking dame in handsome but Puritanically-fashioned garments, came in a hackney coach to request in her son’s name that her granddaughter might return with her, as her occupation was at an end.

   1889, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, A Reputed Changeling or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago, volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., page 4

   Even that smooth, close-shaven cleanliness was so Puritanically aggressive as to make one abhor the very idea of soap.

   1891 June, George du Maurier, “Peter Ibbetson”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXXIII, number CCCCXCIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 27, column 1

   Must this Puritanically misunderstood literal statement destroy man’s dearest possession, the symbol of the reality?

   1893, Wilhelmine von Hillern, translated by Mary J[oanna] Safford, On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, New York, N.Y.: Geo. Gottsberger Peck, […], page 124

   If the government had kept its hands off, England would have divided into two camps, that of the Catholics and that of a Puritanically reformed church.

   1904, Edward Potts Cheyney, “The English Puritans and the Sects (1550–1689)”, in European Background of American History, 1300–1600 (Albert Bushnell Hart, editor, The American Nation: A History, volume 1), New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers […], pages 216–217

   Bad humor on your part, or a slight indisposition, even a clamlike audience, Puritanically austere or cool from diffidence — all these things can be overcome; but the acoustic properties remain the same from the beginning of your program to its end, and if they are not a kindly counselor they turn into a fiendish demon who sneers to death your every effort to produce noble-toned pictures.

   1905 March, Josef Hofmann, “Playing the Piano Successfully”, in The Ladies’ Home Journal, volume XXII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 52, column 2