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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"

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.

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"

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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... absolutely constant from seed, while the more variable types [667] seem to be also more inconstant when propagated sexually. The difference is so striking and affords such a reliable feature that Koch proposed to make two distinct varieties of them, calling the pure type Fraxinus excelsior monophylla, and the varying trees F. excelsior exheterophylla. Some writers, and among them Willdenow, have preferred to separate the "one-leaved" forms from the species, and to call them ...

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... time sufficiently understood that Iris Aglen professed to teach—it is an unusual combination—mathematics and heraldry; she might also have taught equally well, had she chosen, sweetness of disposition, goodness of heart, the benefits conferred by pure and lofty thoughts on the expression of a girl's face, and the way to acquire all the other gracious, maidenly virtues; but either there is too limited a market for these branches of culture, or—which ...

— In Luck at Last • Walter Besant

... many young girls in the world as pure as Veronique, but none purer or more modest. Her confessions might have surprised the angels ...

— The Village Rector • Honore de Balzac

... glittered with golden bowls, and was laden with shining goblets, many of them studded with flashing jewels. The place was filled with an immense luxury; the tables groaned with the dishes, and the bowls brimmed over with divers liquors. Nor did they use wine pure and simple, but, with juices sought far and wide, composed a nectar of many flavours. The dishes glistened with delicious foods, being filled mostly with the spoils of the chase; though the flesh of tame animals was not lacking either. The natives took care to ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

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