Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a puritanical manner; with the exact or rigid notions or manners of the Puritans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a puritanical manner.
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- adverb In a
puritanical manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a prudish manner
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Examples
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It's not the first time that Facebook has puritanically suspended accounts because of sexual and nude image content, or even displays of affection.
G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook! G. Roger Denson 2011
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It's not the first time that Facebook has puritanically suspended accounts because of sexual and nude image content, or even displays of affection.
G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook! G. Roger Denson 2011
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“Salat olivye”—you say it and it evokes the calorific, decadent pleasures of a Russian holiday, the way the puritanically stark green beans of Thanksgiving never will.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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I saw him as puritanically obsessed and catastrophically wrong.
Archive 2008-01-20 Newmania 2008
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“Salat olivye”—you say it and it evokes the calorific, decadent pleasures of a Russian holiday, the way the puritanically stark green beans of Thanksgiving never will.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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I saw him as puritanically obsessed and catastrophically wrong.
Mayoral As A Newt Newmania 2008
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Those who puritanically hold on to ethics in a messy global economy are naive.
Gregory Unruh: Why Code of Ethics "Safety Valves" Are Big Mistakes 2010
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Guards trashing his cell every few weeks turned him from the merely neat to the puritanically neat.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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It doesn't need to be puritanically strict: there's only one posture and that's it.
Introduction to Buddhist Sexual Ethics: Having Sex with Someone Else's Partner 2009
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Throw in supporters who are as antithetical to criticism of their hero as Bush proponents were and as religiously and puritanically devoted to their "neo-progressive" agenda as Bushiites were to his "neo-con" agenda and you have a real horror story brewing: 8 more years of fanatical zealots with no experience imposing their puritanical vision on all who cross their path or who cross them.
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