puritanically
- a word derived from puritanical.
Example Sentences
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Must this Puritanically misunderstood literal statement destroy man's dearest possession, the symbol of the reality?
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Being Puritanically inclined, he was, in addition, prosecuted in the Consistory Court of Norwich by Bishop Harsnet for Nonconformity.
From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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.
From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Lewis, Sinclair
Those who were Puritanically affected refused obedience, and were punished by suspension or deprivation.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
Puritanically earnest by inheritance, he seems also to have inherited a strain of levity which he could not always control, and, through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight.
From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss
