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adjective

Mere adj. (superl. merest. the comparative is rarely or never used)

Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. "Then entered they the mere, main sea." "The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed."

Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. "From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation."

noun

Mere n. A pool or lake.

Mere n. A boundary.

Mere n. A mare. (Obs.)

verb

Mere v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. (Obs.) "Which meared her rule with Africa."

suffix

-mere suff. A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mere" Quotes from Famous Books

... come to the orators. Isocrates, the eldest of those who have survived, is a mere scholastic rhetorician: for he was a timid man, and did not dare to confront the terrors of a stormy political audience; and hence, though he lived about an entire century, he never once addressed the Athenian citizens. It is true, that, ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

... charm and all his knowledge, a man at once of no pretensions and of unfailing natural dignity. Nothing, so far, had served his cause and his influence so well as these moments of free discursive intercourse. The mere orator, the mere talker, indeed, would never have gained any permanent hold; but the life behind gave weight to every acute or eloquent word, and importance even to those mere sallies of a boyish enthusiasm which were still common enough ...

— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... across the ridge, the bushes of huckleberry and sweet fern swarmed at it in two curling waves until it was a mere winding line traced through a tangle. There was no interference by clouds, and as the rays of the sun fell full upon the ridge, they called into voice innumerable insects which chanted the heat of the summer day in ...

— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane

... incapable of looking before and after; he had no motive to do it; he was a mere passive instrument in the hands of others to be used at their discretion. Though living, he was, dead as to all voluntary agency; though moving amidst the creation with an erect form, and with the shape and semblance of a human being, he was ...

— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson

... French officers taken in Belgium are presumably in German detention camps, it would seem that Germany should first substantiate its defense by names, dates, and places, although even then the mere capture of French officers in Belgium after the invasion had begun does not necessarily indicate that they were in Belgium before ...

— The Evidence in the Case • James M. Beck

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