Crossword clues for purer
purer
- More innocent
- Less tainted
- Closer to full strength
- With fewer flaws
- Not as diluted
- Closer to 100%
- Closer to 100 percent
- Not as tainted
- More like the driven snow
- More chaste
- Like country air
- Less infected
- Less blemished
- Having fewer impurities
- Freer from admixture
- Distilled vis-à-vis tap
- Closer to perfect
- More refined
- Less corrupted
- Closer to perfection
- Relatively white
- Having more karats
- Less sinful
- Less adulterated
- Distilled vis-Г -vis tap
- More virtuous
- Freer from defects
- Less contaminated
- Less polluted
- Less diluted
- Express satisfaction about Spain being less polluted
- Less sullied
- More pristine
- More noble
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. (en-comparative of: pure)
Usage examples of "purer".
Perhaps, however, this is a favorable occasion to lay before the reader what was written by a poor pen, in after years, about the child, by one who had loved, and been rendered purer by her.
Such a picture was unrolled before the four individuals who now took their way toward the fine hill to the west of the Bower of Nature, and they enjoyed its beauty, and felt fresher and purer for the sight.
Oh, I feel that what I mean by love is purer than the whole wide world besides!
Never hand Waved sword from stain as free, Nor purer sword led braver band, Nor braver bled for a brighter land, Nor brighter land had a cause so grand, Nor cause a chief like Lee!
Muse, you dare not claim A nobler man than he, Nor nobler man hath less of blame, Nor blameless man hath purer name, Nor purer name hath grander fame, Nor fame -- another Lee.
Were fairer far within the convent walls, And purer in their fragrance and their bloom Than all their sisters in the outer world.
And were I disappointed in yon world, Should that debar me from a purer place?
Far up the sky with ever purer beam, Upon the throne of night the moon was seated, And down the valley glens the shades retreated, And silver light was on the open stream.
Chinese White was much purer and stronger than the stuff doled out by pharmacists and mail-order houses.
This mixed people never attained the civilization of the purer Hyborians, and was pushed by them to the very fringe of the civilized world.
Nature draws effects of constancy and patience purer and more unconquerable than any of those we study so curiously in the schools.
The early Christian hermits retired to the Thebaid because its air was purer, because there were fewer distractions, because God seemed nearer there than in the world of men.
And this is not because woman is purer or more virtuous than man: why, virtue and purity are not very different from vice if they are not free from evil feeling.
And grown-ups and children alike felt that a noble being was walking about their rooms, and that gave a peculiar charm to their manner towards me, as though in my presence their life, too, was purer and more beautiful.
The crown of wifehood and maternity is purer, more divine, than that of the maiden.