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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
puritanize .
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Examples
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Donatello has been puritanized, and though the character may be a perfect symbolic type, it has nothing racial in it; and to be racial was Donatello's charm.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902
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Donatello has been puritanized, and though the character may be a perfect symbolic type, it has nothing racial in it; and to be racial was
Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892
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a week-day; he has been puritanized till he is good for nothing; I'll trouble myself no more about him! '
The Heir of Redclyffe Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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