1.Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion. "The pure fetters on his shins great." "A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy."
2.Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; applied to persons. "Keep thyself pure." "Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience."
3.Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; applied to things and actions. "Pure religion and impartial laws." "The pure, fine talk of Rome." "Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records."
4.(Script.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services. "Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord."
5.(Phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
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