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Definition of Puritanically
1. Adverb. In a prudish manner. "She acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste"
Definition of Puritanically
1. adv. In a puritanical manner.
Definition of Puritanically
1. Adverb. In a puritanical manner. ¹
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Definition of Puritanically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puritanically
Literary usage of Puritanically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... that is why she hates her"—"America will be in economically advantageous
position after the war"'—"puritanically hypocritical"—"Obsequious to English ..."
2. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... that is why she hates her"—"America will be in economically advantageous
position after the war"—"puritanically hypocritical"—"Obsequious to English ..."
3. The Mysteries of the Court of London by George William MacArthur Reynolds (1859)
"... looking more sanctimoniously demure and puritanically miserable than ever, in
spite of the exhilarating influence of the potent beverage whereof he was ..."
4. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"This "honest and loyal doctor" was the supposedly "puritanically affected" Henry
King! 8 E. g., "Diet. Nat. ..."
5. A Selection from the Miscellaneous Historical Papers of Fifty Years by Franklin Bowditch Dexter (1918)
"... of my discouragement and disgrace, insomuch that I am traduced (as I hear and
feare) to his Matie for a Puritan, or one that is puritanically affected. ..."
6. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, Alexander Chalmers (1826)
"It is not perhaps very difficult to guess what Wood means by Mr. REYNOLDS'S being "
puritanically inclined." The same, or a similar expression, ..."
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