puritanically

adv

1. In a puritanical manner.
2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of puritanically.

   “In this view it wants color, passion, it is too self-conscious and prudish, not to say Puritanically mock-modest.”

   “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.”

   “Even that smooth, close-shaven cleanliness was so Puritanically aggressive as to make one abhor the very idea of soap.”

   “Must this Puritanically misunderstood literal statement destroy man’s dearest possession, the symbol of the reality?”

   “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.”