Puritanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Puritanically
form: most Puritanically
Senses: examples: text: In this view it wants color, passion, it is too self-conscious and prudish, not to say Puritanically mock-modest.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Even that smooth, close-shaven cleanliness was so Puritanically aggressive as to make one abhor the very idea of soap.
ref: 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:
text: Must this Puritanically misunderstood literal statement destroy man’s dearest possession, the symbol of the reality?
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Of course he disapproved of what he did: he would not have been the Puritanically trained, country-bred lad that he was, if he had accepted with an easy conscience the idea of tossing about money from hand to hand, money that he could in no sense afford to lose, or money that no one was making any honest effort to win.
ref: 1909, Baroness [Emma] Orczy, The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, […], page 172:
text: His whole influence is thrown on to the side of an austere common sense which destroys emotion because it may become fanaticism, which laughs at sentiment because it may be perverted into nonsense, which is as Puritanically cruel to the insidious blandishments of romance as Plato was cruel to the poets.
ref: 1913, R[olfe] A[rnold] Scott-James, Personality in Literature, London: Martin Secker, […], page 149:
text: There were a Mr. and Mrs. Stettinius—she a poet; he a bleached man, with goatish whiskers and a sanctimonious white neck-cloth, who was Puritanically, ethically, gloomily, religiously atheistic.
ref: 1914, Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, […], page 119:
text: My father, you know, was of a Norse temperament: reflective, thorough, Puritanically correct, and inclined to melancholy; […]
ref: 1914, Thomas Mann, “Tonio Kröger (1902)”, in Bayard Quincy Morgan, transl., edited by Kuno Francke and William Guild Howard, The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, volume XIX, New York, N.Y.: The German Publication Society, page 249:
text: He had been brought up Puritanically by his mother, who kept all fiction from him in his childhood, but grounded him with the happiest results in the Bible and Shakespeare.
ref: 1919, Robert [Wilson] Lynd, Old and New Masters, London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., […], pages 197–198:
text: Robert Alfoldi’s production, with its minimal sets by John Farrell and Puritanically colorless costumes by Sandor Daroczi, accomplishes much with little.
ref: 2008 September 12, Allan Kozinn, “Salem Ghouls Suffer a Socially Relevant Torment”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of puritanically.