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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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"Pure" Quotes from Famous Books

... artificial light for a nursery.—The air of a nursery cannot be too pure; I therefore do not advise you to have gas in it, as gas in burning gives off quantities of carbonic acid and sulphuretted hydrogen, which vitiate the air. The paraffine lamp, too, makes a room very hot and close. There is no better light ...

— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; and all the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old as the hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... played well, but not so well as in the part of waiter, which really suited me admirably. This sarcasm got the laugh on her side, but I returned it by telling her that my performance was a work of art, while her playing of Lady Alton was pure nature. M. de Chavigni told Madame that the spectators were wrong to applaud when she expressed her wonder at my loving her, since she had spoken the words disdainfully; and it was impossible that ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... sort of nakedly. I'm sure if you understood life better, you wouldn't do it. You are tempting men to wrong thoughts, undressed that way, and you are putting on common view the intimate loveliness of the body God gave you to keep holy and pure. It is the way cheap women have of making many men love them in a careless, physical way. I don't know how to tell you, but it seems terrible to me. If you were my own little girl, I never, never would be willing to have you ...

— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill

... baffle, and mystify other men with an art based on the principle that the action of the hand is quicker than the action of the eye. With Whispering Smith the drawing of a revolver and the art of throwing his shots instantly from wherever his hand rested was pure sleight-of-hand. To a dexterity so fatal he added a judgment that had not failed when confronted with deceit. From the moment that Du Sang first spoke, Smith, convinced that he meant to shoot his way through the line, waited only for the moment to come. When Du Sang's hand moved like a flash of light, ...

— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman

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