pure

pure

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈpjʊə/]

Senses

1. pure (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

Example: Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.

2. pure (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Free of foreign material or pollutants.

Example: A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.

3. pure (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

Example: Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.

Concept: Чистота

Polarities of the concept

4. pure (adv) — sense 4

Definition: to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

Example: You’re pure busy.

5. pure (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.

Example: Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.

6. pure (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To cleanse; to refine.

7. pure (noun) — sense 7

Definition: One who, or that which, is pure.

Example: ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.

Structure of the word

Roots:
  • pewh (Proto-Indo-European)

Polarities

Mixture ↔ Simplicity — concept «Чистота»

Sanctity ↔ Degradation — concept «Чистота»

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