Adjective

(en-adj)

Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

* (1800-1859)

Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.

(senseid)Free of foreign material or pollutants.

* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.

Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

* Bible, v. 22

Keep thyself pure .

(label) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}

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

(label) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

Adjective

(-)

Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.

* South

There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.

* John Locke

how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions

(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.

(Gray)