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, title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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

(en adjective)

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Down towns , passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}