what does pure mean?
PURE as ADJECTIVE
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- in a state of sexual virginity
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- pure and vestal modesty
- a spinster or virgin lady
- men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
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- (of color) being chromatically pure
- not diluted with white or gray or black
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- concerned with theory and data rather than practice
- opposed to applied
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- free from discordant qualities
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- used of persons or behaviors
- having no faults
- sinless
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- I felt pure and sweet as a new baby- Sylvia Plath
- pure as the driven snow
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- free of extraneous elements of any kind
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- pure air and water
- pure gold
- pure primary colors
- the violin’’s pure and lovely song
- pure tones
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