pure
Definitions
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.) […]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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