pure

PURE, adjective [Latin purus.] 1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture; as pure water; pure clay; pure sand; pure air; pure silver of gold. pure wine is very scare. 2. Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil. Habakkuk 1:13. Proverbs 20:9. 3. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1:27. 4. Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics. 5. Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent. No hand of strife is pure but that which wins. 6. Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition. 7. Disinterested; as pure benevolence. 8. Chaste; as a pure virgin. 9. Free from vice or moral turpitude. Titus 1:15. 10. Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6:20. 11. Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure 12. Mere; absolute; that and that only; unconnected with any thing else; as a pure villain. He did that from pure compassion, or pure good nature. PURE, verb transitive To purify; to cleanse. [Not in use.]