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Definition of Pure
Pure

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.

Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.

Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

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Pure Quotations

I am too pure for you or anyone.
Sylvia Plath

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pure Translations

pure in Afrikaans is skoon, suiwer
pure in Danish is ren
pure in Dutch is zindelijk, puur, helder, rein, schoon
pure in Finnish is puhdas
pure in French is pur, pudique
pure in Hungarian is tiszta
pure in Italian is pulito, pudico
pure in Latin is incorruptus, incontaminatus, purus, putus
pure in Norwegian is ren
pure in Portuguese is puro
pure in Spanish is puro, mondo, limpio, casto
pure in Swedish is ren, oblandad, idel


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