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puritanize, v.|ˈpjʊərɪtənaɪz|
[as prec. + -ize.]
1. intr. (with it). To act the puritan; to practise, conform to, or affect puritanism.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar 270 He faine would puritanize it.
2. trans. To make puritan, imbue with puritanism.
1648Persecutio Undecima 13 So generally peevish and puritanized were the people. 1838Hallam Lit. Eur. II. i. 55 note, Leicester succeeded in puritanizing, as Wood thought, the University. 1853C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe iii, He has been puritanized till he is good for nothing.
Hence ˈpuritaˌnized, ˈpuritaˌnizing ppl. adjs.; also ˈpuritaˌnizer, one who puritanizes.
1836New Monthly Mag. XLVII. 99 St. Paul's was a puritanized prosaic imitation of St. Peter's. 1847Bp. Wilberforce Let. in Ashwell Life (1879) I. x. 408, I cannot effectually guard the purity of the faith..from dishonesty of subscription on the side of Romanizers, if I wink at a like sin on the side of Puritanizers. 1857Baden Powell Chr. without Judaism 173 The continued struggle between the Puritanising and the Catholicising extremes of the Reformation. 1882J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. II. 162 Cranmer and the Puritanizing party. |