un-Puritanically

English

Adverb

un-Puritanically (comparative more un-Puritanically, superlative most un-Puritanically)

1. Alternative form of unpuritanically.
   • 1875, Peter Alfred Taylor, editor, Some Account of the Taylor Family (Originally Taylard), London: […], page 58:

     There speaks out the true Puritan of two centuries ago; but it reads strangely, as it stands in close juxtaposition with the other passage wherein he minutely recounts the Pearl Necklace, Gold Watch, and Diamond Rings, which he had so recently (and so un-Puritanically) bestowed upon his new wife.

   • 1896 October, Clifton S. Hunsicker, “Simon Cory: A Tale of a Pioneer Druggist”, in The California Druggist: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Retail Druggist, volume V, number 10, Los Angeles, Calif., page 5, column 2:

     Jonathan, greatly disappointed by the loss of his love, was angered with his brother, and very un-Puritanically meditated revenge.

   • 1910, Edward Conybeare, Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely, London: Macmillan and Co., […], page 288:

     He began his ministerial career by taking on himself to supply the place of a brother collegian, the Puritan minister in charge of Littlington, near Royston, who, most un-Puritanically, was often incapacitated by drink from performing his duties.

   • 1938, B[arbara] Dew Roberts, Mitre & Musket: John Williams, Lord Keeper, Archbishop of York, 1582–1650, London, New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, page 122:

     The wainscoted chapel was, in Hacket’s opinion, ‘the only room that was too little’—it was only about 21 feet long, almost square, and most un-Puritanically adorned with rich carving and with pictures.

   • 1959 October, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXXVI, number 10, page 94:

     Whether it be the traditional turkey stuffed very un-Puritanically with a pilaf of exotic suggestion; or fabulous pheasant trimmed with herbed wild rice and slivered almonds; or (most taste-tantalizing of all, perhaps) roast duck mellowed in a deliciously different stuffing of sauerkraut and apples—whatever bird you choose, your feast will be a noble one and your whole family will be thankful that you read the Journal!

   • 1966, Cyclone Covey, The Gentle Radical: A Biography of Roger Williams, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Collier-Macmillan Limited, →LCCN, page 62:

     Williams, who un-Puritanically reiterated that music was a gift of God, sang from Ainsworth’s psalter both in Plymouth and Salem.

   • 1978, William B[ridges] Hunter, Jr., John T. Shawcross, John M. Steadman, Purvis E. Boyette, Leonard Nathanson, editors, A Milton Encyclopedia, volumes 3 (Ed–Hi), Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 41, column 1:

     Milton mockingly laments his own empty stomach but commends Diodati for his pleasant holiday, then very un-Puritanically expands on the pleasures of wine, revelry, and poetry for twenty-eight lines (9–36) and for another twelve dwells on music and love as sources of poetic inspiration.