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Pure   /pjʊr/   Listen
adjective
Pure  adj.  (compar. purer; superl. purest)  
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.
Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans."
Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene.
Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry.
Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats of the principles of the science, or contradistinction to applied mathematics, which treats of the application of the principles to the investigation of other branches of knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. See Mathematics.
Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord.
Synonyms: Unmixed; clear; simple; real; true; genuine; unadulterated; uncorrupted; unsullied; untarnished; unstained; stainless; clean; fair; unspotted; spotless; incorrupt; chaste; unpolluted; undefiled; immaculate; innocent; guiltless; guileless; holy.





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"Pure" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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 ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... 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")
... hiccough now, but a pause from pure physical impotence, pending a doubtful struggle against ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge


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