Legitimate vs Pure - What's the difference?
legitimate | pure |
In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
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Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
* (rfdate) Macaulay
Authentic, real, genuine.
(senseid)Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
Relating to hereditary rights.
To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
* (1800-1859)
(senseid)Free of foreign material or pollutants.
* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
* Bible, v. 22
(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= (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.
(Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
As adjectives the difference between legitimate and pure
is that legitimate is in accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful while pure is free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.As a verb legitimate
is to make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.As an adverb pure is
to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.legitimate
English
Etymology 1
From . Originally "lawfully begotten," from (etyl) legitimer and directly fromAdjective
(en adjective)- legitimate''' reasoning; a '''legitimate standard or method
- Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.
- legitimate''' poems of Chaucer; '''legitimate inscriptions
Synonyms
(checksyns) * lawful, legal, rightfulAntonyms
* illegitimate, falseEtymology 2
Legal Latin, from legitimatus, past participle of (legitimo). See above for antecedentsVerb
(legitimat)Usage notes
* Forms of (legitimize) are about twice as common as forms of the verb legitimate in the US. * Forms of legitimate are somewhat more common than the forms of the verbs (legitimize) and (legitimise) in the UK combined.Synonyms
* legitimizeDerived terms
* delegitimateExternal links
* ----pure
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
- A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
- Keep thyself pure .
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Synonyms
* perfect * innocent * See alsoAntonyms
* impure, contaminated * (done for its own sake) appliedDerived terms
* pure finder * as pure as the driven snowAdverb
(en adverb)- You’re pure busy.