Meaning of pure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who, or that which, is pure.
   countable, uncountable
2. healthy, sound
3. earnest
4. whole, unbroken
5. first-person singular present indicative of sanar

Equivalents

Examples

“... 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.”

“Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]”

“All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]”

“[…] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.”

“Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road.[…] "What is that, Mary?" Jake asked. "'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure." "Pure? What is pure?" "Pure is another word for dung," Mary answered.”

“[…] surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.) […]”

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