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Pure

adjective
(compar. purer; superl. purest)
1.
Free of extraneous elements of any kind.  "Pure gold" , "Pure primary colors" , "The violin's pure and lovely song" , "Pure tones" , "Pure oxygen"  Antonym: impure.
2.
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.  Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter.  "A complete coward" , "A consummate fool" , "A double-dyed villain" , "Gross negligence" , "A perfect idiot" , "Pure folly" , "What a sodding mess" , "Stark staring mad" , "A thoroughgoing villain" , "Utter nonsense" , "The unadulterated truth"
3.
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black.  Synonym: saturated.  Antonym: unsaturated.
4.
Free from discordant qualities.
5.
Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied.
6.
(used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless.  "Pure as the driven snow"  Antonym: impure.
7.
In a state of sexual virginity.  Synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous.  "A spinster or virgin lady" , "Men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"



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"Pure" Quotes from Famous Books



... Catholic newspapers are the Conservative Tyd ('Time') and the somewhat democratic Centrum. Both are party papers pure and simple, and are excellently edited, so far as party politics are concerned, by clever, well educated, well read men. The Centrum frequently enjoys the co-operation of Dr. Herman Schaepman, the priest-poet, whose somewhat ponderous ...
— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough

... a mistake to conclude that Canada's nation builders consisted entirely of poor people. The race movement has not been a leaderless mob. Princes, nobles, adventurers, soldiers of fortune, were the pathfinders who blazed the trail to Canada. Glory, pure and simple, was the aim that lured the first comers across the trackless seas. Adventurous young aristocrats, members of the Old Order, led the first nation builders to America, and, all unconscious of destiny, laid the foundations ...
— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut

... either in the pure form as shown, or with slight alterations, make up approximately one-half of the ...
— The Tinguian - Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe • Fay-Cooper Cole

... thing it was to come at it; what time has been spent in endeavouring to find out truth in a fellow, that in defiance of all admonition, threats and persuasion, would prevaricate and shuffle to conceal that truth; nay lie, and forswear himself to contradict it. But out of pure Christian charity, as I told him, so I tell you I do heartily pray, and all good Christians I hope will join with me in it, to the God of infinite mercy that He would have mercy upon his soul, upon which he hath contracted so great a guilt by the impudence of his behaviour and ...
— State Trials, Political and Social - Volume 1 (of 2) • Various

... pure white on one side and pale gray on the other did but heighten the effect of ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth


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