puritanic

English

Alternative forms

• Puritanic

Etymology

puritan +‎ -ic

Adjective

puritanic (comparative more puritanic, superlative most puritanic)

1. Archaic form of puritanical.
   • 1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:

     […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.

   • 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:

     After Louise had gone, I inspected the icebox, and finding it much too puritanic, walked to town and bought the richest foods available.