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puritanic en · ADJ

Etymology

From puritan + -ic.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic form of puritanical.
   alt of puritanical
   • After Louise had gone, I inspected the icebox, and finding it much too puritanic, walked to town and bought the richest foods available. 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 74:
   • […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other. 1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:

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