puritanically
- a word derived from puritanical.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert
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
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
In questions of marriage and divorce English legislation and English public feeling are behind alike both the Latin land of France and the Puritanically moulded land of the United States.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
