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1613 T. Fitzherbert Adioynder to Suppl. R. Persons Discuss. x. 478 To shew that he doth truly Puritanize in the point of the Supremacy, it is to be vnderstood, that..the Puritans do not admit the Kings Ecclesiasticall primacy..he answereth that albeit they maintayne a parity amongst themselues..yet they doe not hold, that there is any parity betwixt the King, and them.

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 270 He faine would puritanize it.

1680 W. Petyt Miscellanea Parliamentaria 89 He puts Disgraces on Protestant Divines, that Calvin, Perkins, and Beza, are Dictators; and that Beza doth Puritanize.

1824 Lancet 10 Apr. 64/2 He puritanises over our personalities.

1648 R. Chestlin Persecutio Undecima 13 So generally peevish and puritanized were the people.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. i. 55 Leicester succeeded in puritanizing, as Wood thought, the university.

1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe I. iii. 26 He has been puritanized till he is good for nothing.

1909 W. D. Howells Seven Eng. Cities 196 One must remember that the English who remained at home were never Puritanized.

1946 Berks. Evening Standard (Pittsfield, Mass.) 20 May 7/4 The administration does not wish to ‘puritanize’ the campus.

1998 S. W. Twing Myths, Models & U.S. Foreign Policy ii. 23 Later generations of Puritan mythmakers expanded the mission to include Puritanizing (not just Christianizing) first England and then the rest of the world.

1836 New Monthly Mag. 47 99 St. Paul's was a puritanized prosaic imitation of St. Peter's.

1931 New Eng. Q. 4 169 The colonists of Massachusetts Bay, under a small Puritanized leadership at the first, were in fact not Puritans.

1990 G. Snyder Pract. of Wild iii. 52 The puritanized South Indian conservatives feared the erotic component.

1847 S. Wilberforce Let. in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) 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.

1857 B. Powell Christianity without Judaism 173 The continued struggle between the Puritanising and the Catholicising extremes of the Reformation.

1934 W. Lewis in Archit. Rev. 76 157/2 The new evangelism..is to be seen as much within the frontiers of the Roman Catholic communion, as in other—and more traditionally ‘puritanising’—folds.

1993 R. E. Wentz Pennsylvania Dutch 15 There has arisen in Christendom a puritanizing and rationalizing process that seeks to eliminate or ignore folk spirituality.