We recognize the Puritanic severity of President Quincy in this sentence, which robbed young Lowell of the pleasantest term of college life, as well as the honor of appearing on the stage on Class Day.
In this matter Hawthorne certainly exposes his Puritanic education, and he also places too high a value on the carving of buttonholes and shoestrings by Italian workmen.
Hoarse ranters, crazed Fifth Monarchists, Of stripes and bondage braggarts, Pale Churchmen, with singed rubrics snatched From Puritanic fagots.
Twm examined the culinary ware, with all the caution of an old farm wife, asking the prices of various articles, and turned up the whites of his eyes in the most approved puritanic fashion, expressive of astonishment at such excessive charges.
So, you'll have to put aside that prim, puritanic costume for a while.
His poems are the fruit of Oriental mysticism and bardic fervor grafted upon the shrewd, parsimonious, New England puritanic stock.
How remarkable is this passage written in Puritanic New England in 1842: I hear with pleasure that a young girl in the midst of rich, decorous Unitarian friends in Boston is well-nigh persuaded to join the Roman Catholic Church.
Fleeing from persecution and oppression, the Pilgrims of Mayflower fame established in the New World a reign of Puritanic tyranny and crime.
He therefore had neither time nor inclination to measure everyone's morality with a Puritanic yardstick.
Thanks to thisPuritanic tyranny, the majority of women soon find themselves at the ebb of their physical resources.
As with a surgeon's knife every Puritanic carcass is dissected, and the way thus cleared for man's liberation from the dead weights of the past.
Not even in the domain of the Tsar is personal liberty daily outraged to the extent it is in America, the stronghold of the Puritanic eunuchs.
Such an attitude merely exposes the terrible lack of understanding of the true causes of prostitution, as a social factor, as well as manifesting the Puritanic spirit of the Scarlet Letter days.
It is therefore sheer British jingoism which points to America as the country of Puritanic provincialism.
They might seem to show that what I have called the utilitarian element in his thoughts had effectually sapped the base of the Puritanic element.
We may even include in this list Young Goodman Brown, in one sense an unreal and fantastic tale, but in another, historically true to the Puritanic idea of the orgies of witches in a forest.
The completeness with which everything is subordinated to the moral question involved, and the intensity with which this question is treated, show the Puritanic temperament and the imaginative genius of the author.
The heart of the City was, and remained for a hundred and fifty years afterwards, deeply affected with the Puritanic spirit.
Doubtless the hen has always a puritanic appearance, although (in its own behaviour) I could never observe it to be more particular than its neighbours.
And deep in his hell sang the Devil, and this was the strain of his song: "The ancient, outworn, Puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong.
The Puritanic rigor that has been so much relaxed during the past half-century was then much what it had been in the earliest colonial times.
That the Puritanic atmosphere was no harsh and unmirthful thing in this parsonage is shown by the story told by one who was a boy in Stockbridge at the time.
George Washington is known chiefly through the rather stilted style of writing that then prevailed, and the puritanic expressions that were used in describing commendable conduct.
That was sternly required to conform to a rigid puritanicor cavalier standard.
This book, however, gave Oscar's puritanic enemies a better weapon against him than even "The Portrait of Mr. W.
His political zeal was a frenzy; and his religion was deeply tinged with puritanic gloom.
The epicurean temper of the south, and the puritanic mood of the north, are alike stimulated by this.
Let us laugh and be merry--to-morrow is the Jewish Sabbath--and after thatPuritanic Sunday .
We have outlived the old standards; we have burst like an overtight thong The ancient outworn, Puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong.
And deep in his hell sang the devil, and this was the strain of his song: 'The ancient, outworn, Puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong.
And I doubt not, but that we all need that warning not to give up "The ancient, outworn, Puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong.
The destruction of the theatre here was the result of an ancient quarrel between the puritanic party and the whole corps dramatique.
Buckingham, desirous of accommodating the parties in the nation, once tried at the favour of the puritanic party, whose head was Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puritanic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
