noun
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One who, or that which, is pure.
verb
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To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately
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Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
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To cleanse; to refine.
adjective
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Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
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Free of foreign material or pollutants.
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Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
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Mere; that and that only.
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That idea is pure madness!
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(of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
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Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
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(of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
adverb
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To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
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You’re pure busy.
Examples of pure in a Sentence
It was pure fact.
This is all pure and noble.
Children should be encouraged to read for the pure delight of it.
He laughed and held her above his head, his expression once again, pure adoration.
Alex turned to Carmen, his expression pure surprise.
Your nature is too … pure.
And suddenly a new unexpected memory from that realm of pure and loving childhood presented itself to him.
To her pure soul all evil is equally unlovely.
You do not know the relief of brushing away a fly that has bitten you, nor the delight of eating delicious food, nor the satisfaction of drawing a long breath of fresh, pure air.
She leaned her head back, closing her eyes and smiling with the pure pleasure of the moment.
Still, we sometimes found ourselves perusing a report out of pure curiosity.
I was ready to close the site from pure frustration when a notice of a recovered body caught my attention, big time.
Her directness and pure courage-- there was no other word for her insubordinate address!-- amazed him.
The photographer's assistant yelped suddenly, and she turned her head, needing the distraction from the infuriating wall of pure male lying on top of her.
Hansen set himself the task of studying the properties of the varieties of yeast, and to do this he had to cultivate each variety in a pure state.
The accuracy and the paraphernalia are equally exemplified in all Wagner's additions and alterations of the classical orchestral scheme, for these all consist in completing the families of instruments so that each timbre can be presented pure in complete harmony.
But apart from the applied science, there is an aspect of pure geography which concerns the theory of the relation of economics to the surface of the earth.
The material was pure, and his art was pure; how could the result be other than wonderful?
Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.
Illuminism is not a pure doctrine, just because it is attracted by social activity and puffed up by pride.
She knew he was popular enough for her cousins to watch the show, but this was pure madness!
Examining next what immediately follows the knowledge of pure intellect, he will pass in review all the other means of knowledge, and will find that they are two (or three), the imagination and the senses (and the memory).
At this point Gassendi arrested Descartes and addressed his objections to him as pure intelligence, - O mens!
It was on this subject of keeping pure the Lord's Table that the controversy arose between the ministers and the town councillors which ended in the banishment of Calvin, Farel and Conrad from Geneva.
Boron hydride has probably never been isolated in the pure condition; on heating boron trioxide with magnesium filings, a magnesium boride Mg 3 B 2 is obtained, and if this be decomposed with dilute hydrochloric acid a very evil-smelling gas, consisting of a mixture of hydrogen and boron hydride, is obtained.
Its climate is the healthiest in mid-Scotland, the air being pure and dry.
It varies in colour from a light brown in the newest lignites to a pure black, often with a bluish or yellowish tint in the more compact anthracite of the older formations.
The carnallite produced is dissolved in hot water and the solution allowed to cool, when it deposits a coarse granular potassium chloride containing up to 99% of the pure substance.
Like other races of mankind, the Russian race is not pure.
The address in reply to the speech from the throne, voted after a debate in which abstract theories had triumphed over common sense, demanded universal suffrage, the establishment of pure parliamentary government, the abolition of capital punishment, the expropriation of the landlords, a political amnesty, and the suppression of the Imperial Council.
The reaction against the medieval theory at the time of the Reformation took the form of a return to what had no doubt been an early belief, - the idea that the Christian sacrifice consists in the offering of a pure heart and of vocal thanksgiving.
As results of Roberval's labours outside the department of pure mathematics may be noted a work on the system of the universe, in which he supports the Copernican system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter; and also the invention of a special kind of balance which goes by his name.
From first to last the true religion of Yahweh was pure of sexual taint.
The ordinary colour of the wolf is yellowish or fulvous grey, but almost pure white and entirely black wolves are known.
Other noteworthy churches are the Jakobskirche, an i r th-century Romanesque basilica; the St Martinskirche; the Marienkirche or Obere Pfarrkirche (1320-1387), which has now been restored to its original pure Gothic style.
The discovery of Anne's misdeeds coincided in an extraordinary manner with Henry's disappointment in not obtaining by her a male heir, while the king's despotic power and the universal unpopularity of Anne both tended to hinder the administration of pure justice.
For pure mathematics he had a special gift - almost a passion.
He treated the question at issue as one of pure logic, and disliking the Reformers, the right of private judgment which Protestants claimed, and the somewhat prosaic uniformity of the English Church, he flung himself into a general campaign against Protestantism in general and the Anglican form of it in particular.
The earliest pure Latin inscriptions of the district seem to be C.I.L.
Only by the preaching of pure doctrine would he overcome heretics....
But the former gained the day, and, realizing that the only hope of maintaining a pure worship of Yahweh lay in a forcible isolation from foreign influence, its adherents were prepared to take measures to ensure the religious independence of their assembly.
Such vicissitudes were the ordinary lot of the Jews for several centuries, and it was their own inner life - the pure life of the home, the idealism of the synagogue, and the belief in ultimate Messianic redemption - that saved them from utter demoralization and despair.
But passing from this region of pure mythology to the semi-mythic or heroic age, we find almost all the early legends and traditions of the island grouped around the name of Minos.
His extant works are (a) three poems, "The Praises of Wemen" (224 lines), "On Luve" (10 lines), and "The Miseries of a Pure Scholar" (189 lines), and (b) a Latin account of the Arbuthnot family, Originis et Incrementi Arbuthnoticae Familiae Descriptio Historica (still in MS.), of which an English continuation, by the father of Dr John Arbuthnot, is preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.
On the other hand, these traditions, however unhistorical in their present form, cannot be pure imagination.
The simplest modes of preparing pure glycerin are based on the saponification of fats, either by alkalis or by superheated steam, and on the circumstance that, although glycerin cannot be distilled by itself under the ordinary pressure without decomposition, it can be readily volatilized in a current of superheated steam.
In politics Nordin was a royalist from pure conviction.
In the case of sheep the National Sheep Breeders' Association looks after the interests of flockmasters in general, whilst most of the pure breeds are represented also by separate organizations.
Adam Smith had invariably associated the general principles of the subject with their applications, and in treating those applications had perpetually appealed to other and often far larger considerations than pure political economy affords.
In all branches of economics, even in what is called the pure theory, there is an implied reference to certain historical or existing conditions of a more or less definite character; to the established order of an organized state or other community, at a stage of development which in its main features can be recognized.