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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



... 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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