Crossword clues for purest
purest
- Like 24K gold
- Least spoiled
- Least diluted
- Least contaminated
- With the fewest flaws
- Most undefiled
- Most like the driven snow
- Most innocent
- Most chaste
- Most absolute
- Maximally pristine
- Least adulterated
- Completely untainted
- "The ___ treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation": Shakespeare
- " . . . of ___ ray serene"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pure \Pure\, a. [Compar. Purer; superl. Purest.] [OE. pur, F. pur, fr. L. purus; akin to putus pure, clear, putare to clean, trim, prune, set in order, settle, reckon, consider, think, Skr. p? to clean, and perh. E. fire. Cf. Putative.]
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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.
--Chaucer.A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
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Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons. ``Keep thyself pure.''
--1 Tim. v. 22.Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience.
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Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions. ``Pure religion and impartial laws.''
--Tickell. ``The pure, fine talk of Rome.''
--Ascham.Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
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(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.
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(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.''
--Fuller.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.
--Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. )Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord.
--Blackstone.Syn: 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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (en-superlative of: pure) 2 having the greatest purity
Usage examples of "purest".
With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.
I regard it as a work without blemish, of uninterrupted perfection, and this commentary is but the humble testimony of my Veneration and gratitude for the genius to whom I owe the purest and most permanent joys of my life as a musician.
Grail--and purest faith it lendeth To those good knights who are its chosen few.
The elements, and more particularly Fire, Light, and the Sun, whom they called Mithra, were the objects of their religious reverence, because they considered them as the purest symbols, the noblest productions, and the most powerful agents of the Divine Power and Nature.
A milder sentiment was embraced in practice as well as in theory, by the purest and most respectable of the Christian churches.
From this journey, however, they derived a benefit which reflects the purest lustre on the character of Chosroes.
But the purest reward of Belisarius was in the faithful execution of a treaty for which his honor had been pledged to the king of the Vandals.
Jesus, the tears which he shed over his friend and country may be esteemed the purest evidence of his humanity.
The natives of Yemen and Persia were scattered round Toledo and the inland country, and the fertile seats of Grenada were bestowed on ten thousand horsemen of Syria and Irak, the children of the purest and most noble of the Arabian tribes.
In a lofty pavilion of the gardens, one of these basins and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water, but with the purest quicksilver.
French kingdom are derived from the purest source of equality and justice.
While the synod of Florence was involved in theological debate, some beneficial consequences might flow from the study of his elegant philosophy: his style is the purest standard of the Attic dialect, and his sublime thoughts are sometimes adapted to familiar conversation, and sometimes adorned with the richest colors of poetry and eloquence.
Las Vegas has distilled Western Materialism down to its purest abstract, so Thud is the assimilated essence of motormad Egypt.
Her bravest, fairest, purest, best, The waiting grave would welcome as its guest.
In a wave that is purest -- then haste and bring A song to the hearts that weep.