puritanically r in a prudish manner Usage(s) To the extent that it succeeds, Baby Doll is an almost puritanically moral, work of art. A diagrammatic sketch of the joints of the human body interpreted in terms of the joints of machinery lay puritanically before the reader on one page. He once defined the motivation at the core of his writing: "I was brought up puritanically. Synonym(s) prudishly