puritanic

English

Alternative forms

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.
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