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English
Etymology
From puritan + -ic.
Adjective
puritanic (comparative more puritanic, superlative most puritanic)
- 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 P 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.