puritanically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a puritanical manner.
adv
Alternative letter-case form of puritanically.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English puritanic English -al English puritanical Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English puritanically From puritanical + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more puritanically (comparative)
most puritanically (superlative)