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1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe iii. sig. E Shee would do it so puritannically, so secretly I meane, that no body should heare of it.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. v. i. 296 If any censure these as more then puritanically rigid in this point of laughter, let them hearken what some Pagan Authors have resolved of it, whom none dare tax of Puritanisme.

1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 9 Apr. (O.H.S.) I. 221 [He] was a little Puritannically inclin'd.

1798 J. Milner Diss. Mod. Style altering Antient Cathedrals 36 Even Davenant.., and Morton.., though both puritanically affected, yet vigorously supported the discipline of the Church of England.

1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia III. ii. xvii. 86 The forehead, over which that stiff, harsh hair was so puritanically parted.

1896 School Rev. 4 240 The book places unconventional mathematical forms before children..although it is puritanically conventional as to the subject matter.

1926 Times 17 June 10/4 He is discretely anxious that his pudding shall not be all plums, and almost puritanically averse to anything like a naked paradox or an unblushing epigram.

2004 M. Lovejoy Digital Currents i. ii. 57 Puritanically stern in their denial of pleasure in materials..conceptual artists began to use text and photography.