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pure

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pure is a 2009 Swedish drama film directed and written by Lisa Langseth . Its Swedish language title is Till det som är vackert which approximately translates to "To that which is beautiful" . Lead actress Alicia Vikander won the Swedish Guldbagge Award ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300 (late 12c. as a surname, and Old English had purlamb "lamb without a blemish"), "unmixed," also "absolutely, entirely," from Old French pur "pure, simple, absolute, unalloyed," figuratively "simple, sheer, mere" (12c.), from Latin purus "clean, clear; ...

Usage examples of pure.

Those who remained, many of them, were bitten by the Nazi aberrations and attempted to apply them to pure science.

Nevertheless, I owe it to myself to tell my readers that my pleasure was too pure to have in it any admixture of vice.

But when his pure and proper divinity had been established on the ruins of Arianism, the faith of the Catholics trembled on the edge of a precipice where it was impossible to recede, dangerous to stand, dreadful to fall and the manifold inconveniences of their creed were aggravated by the sublime character of their theology.

At the top was an aigrette of diamonds of the purest water, the centre one as large as a sixpenny-piece.

Behind them, the sage continued his chant, reciting slokas upon slokas, the mantras seeming to change the very texture of the air they breathed, infusing their lungs with raw, pure energy drawn down from the akasa to replace the foul atmosphere of the Bhayanak-van.

I am assured by good authorities that it is most difficult, or impossible, to know whether chondrin is pure, and if it contained any albuminous compound, this would have produced the above effects.

But pure quill alk, as he had grown used to drinking as a field soldier.

The less pure samples will show an excess of alkalinity because of the presence of sodium carbonate or of potassium carbonate.

Blumenthal wife-beating allegation is pure fiction that has been created by Clinton enemies.

When in the seventh round Erik leans in and takes the last of these, an ambidextrous first baseman from the University of Pittsburgh named Brant Colamarino, Paul wears an expression of pure bliss.

He lifted his face, and Amelle saw his smile of pure male satisfaction.

Aniline when pure is a colorless liquid, possessing a rather ammoniacal odor.

After our delightful amorous sport, I told her the news, but love had so completely taken possession of her pure and sensitive soul, that what had been important was now only an accessory.

Pawnbroker Fang, who will sell the root to somebody like the Ancestress, who will squat like a huge venomous toad upon a folk deity whose sole purpose in life is to aid the pure in heart.

Camilla conservava ancora qualche cosa di solenne, resto dello stato di demenza in cui era rimasta tanto tempo, ma pure era tornata in senno.