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Simon-pure

Simon-pure \Si"mon-pure"\, a. Genuine; true; real; authentic; -- a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure, who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the ``real Simon Pure.''

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
simon-pure

1815, from the true Simon Pure "the genuine person or thing" (1795), from Simon Pure, name of a Quaker who is impersonated by another character (Colonel Feignwell) in part of the comedy "A Bold Stroke for a Wife" (1717) by Susannah Centlivre, English dramatist and actress. The real Simon Pure is dealt with as an imposter in the play and is believed only after he has proved his identity.

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simon-pure

a. 1 absolutely pure. 2 genuine; real; authentic

Usage examples of "simon-pure".

Or, maybe you Talents are too simon-pure to lower yourselves to out right blackmail.

Jill, a man who is the Simon-pure legitimate child of three different parents.

But even if both of us were Simon-pure North European stock, certified by the American Kennel Club, (a silly notion, since the amount of casual bastardy among humans is far in excess of that ever admitted)-but even if we were, such ancestry would merely tell us which cannibals we are descended from.