puritanically
puritanically adverb: in a puritanical manner.
Adverb (1)
puritanically (comparative more puritanically, superlative most puritanically)
- In a puritanical manner.
Adverb (2) capitalized: Puritanically
Puritanically (comparative more Puritanically, superlative most Puritanically)
- 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.1887 January, Charles Dudley Warner, “New Orleans”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXIV, number CCCCXL, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 194, column 2
- 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...1889, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, A Reputed Changeling or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago, volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., page 4
Forms of puritanically
| comparative | more puritanically |
|---|---|
| superlative | most puritanically |
| alternative form | Puritanically |
| comparative | more Puritanically |
| superlative | most Puritanically |
Origin of puritanically
From puritanical + -ly.
Questions about puritanically
- What does puritanically mean?
- Puritanically means in a puritanical manner.
- What part of speech is puritanically?
- Puritanically is an adverb.
Words near puritanically in the dictionary
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