Puritanically

English Adverb en puritanically. en w:Charles Dudley Warner New Orleans Harper’s New Monthly Magazine LXXIV CCCCXL New York, N.Y. Harper & Brothers,Publishers, 327 to 335 Pearl Street, Franklin Square January 1887 194 https://archive.org/details/harpersnew74various/page/194/mode/1up 2 In this view it wants color, passion, it is too self-conscious and prudish, not to say Puritanically mock-modest. en Charlotte M[ary] Yonge A Reputed Changeling or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago II London; New York, N.Y. Macmillan and Co. 1889 4 https://archive.org/details/reputedchangelin02yong/page/4/mode/1up 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. en w:George du Maurier Peter Ibbetson Harper’s New Monthly Magazine LXXXIII CCCCXCIII New York, N.Y. Harper & Brothers,Publishers, 327 to 335 Pearl Street, Franklin Square June 1891 27 https://archive.org/details/harpersnew80various/page/27/mode/1up 1 Even that smooth, close-shaven cleanliness was so Puritanically aggressive as to make one abhor the very idea of soap. en w:Wilhelmine von Hillern Mary J[oanna] Safford On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau New York, N.Y. Geo. Gottsberger Peck,Publisher, 11 Murray Street 1893 124 https://archive.org/details/oncrossaromance01saffgoog/page/n148/mode/1up Must this Puritanically misunderstood literal statement destroy man’s dearest possession, the symbol of the reality? en w:Edward Potts Cheyney The English Puritans and the Sects (1550–1689) European Background of American History, 1300–1600 Albert Bushnell Hart, editor, The American Nation: A History, volume 1 New York, N.Y.; London Harper & BrothersPublishers 1904 216–217 https://archive.org/details/americannationhi01hartuoft/page/216/mode/2up 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. en w:Josef Hofmann Playing the Piano Successfully The Ladies’ Home Journal XXII 4 Philadelphia, Pa. The Curtis Publishing Company March 1905 52 https://archive.org/details/sim_ladies-home-journal_1905-03_22_4/page/52/mode/1up 2 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. en Baroness [Emma] Orczy The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century New York, N.Y. Grosset & Dunlap,Publishers 1909 172 https://archive.org/details/nestofsparrowhaw00orczuoft/page/172/mode/1up 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. en R[olfe] A[rnold] Scott-James Personality in Literature London Martin Secker,Number Five John Street Adelphi 1913 149 https://archive.org/details/personalityinlit00scot/page/149/mode/1up 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. en w:Sinclair Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man New York, N.Y. Grosset & Dunlap,Publishers 1914 119 https://archive.org/details/ourmrwrenn00lewirich/page/n132/mode/1up 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. en w:Thomas Mann Bayard Quincy Morgan Tonio Kröger (1902) w:Kuno Francke; William Guild Howard The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English XIX New York, N.Y. The German Publication Society 1914 249 https://archive.org/details/germanclassicsof19franuoft/page/249/mode/1up My father, you know, was of a Norse temperament: reflective, thorough, Puritanically correct, and inclined to melancholy; en Robert [Wilson] Lynd Old and New Masters London T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.,Adelphi Terrace 1919 197–198 https://archive.org/details/oldnewmasters00lynduoft/page/197/mode/1up 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. en w:Allan Kozinn Salem Ghouls Suffer a Socially Relevant Torment w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/arts/music/13cruc.html 12 September 2008 Robert Alfoldi’s production, with its minimal sets by John Farrell and Puritanically colorless costumes by Sandor Daroczi, accomplishes much with little. https://web.archive.org/web/20230214181108/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/arts/music/13cruc.html 14 February 2023