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adj
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
Free of foreign material or pollutants.
A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
As for the rest, the air here is said to be purer than elsewhere in Ireland; the water of the Nore is beautifully transparent; and the bogless state of the land helps out the rhyme.
Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.
Mere; that and that only.
That idea is pure madness!
Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
adv
to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re pure busy.
I just get pure shy with the interview cats.
verb
To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
To cleanse; to refine.