puritanic

adj

1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of puritanical.

   “[…] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.”

   “After Louise had gone, I inspected the icebox, and finding it much too puritanic, walked to town and bought the richest foods available.”

2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of puritanic.

   “Lucy, who had only seen her in either the large loose wrapping dress of serge, or in the quaint simplicity of the Puritanic garb, then so general in England, could not restrain an exclamation of admiration as she returned to their chamber.”

   “This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.”

   “To impute to those who do not care for the Holywell Street literature of any time “the Puritanic squeamishness of an extremely moral undetected Tartuffe, acting as Aristarchus,” is to be too zealous for unrighteousness.”

   “The local belles and beaux, the newcomer wrote some weeks later, had found long-lasting amusement in this peculiar attempt at acquaintanceship between such dissimilar men, the dour author of the Puritanic The Scarlet Letter and the free-and-easy [Herman] Melville, author of Typee and Omoo, books which had made him the first American literary sex symbol.”