Adverb

(en adverb)

* 1962 , , Flush Times :

I am fascinated by the entire scene, I purely am.

Solely; exclusively; merely, simply.

* 2005 , Owen Bowcott, The Guardian , 8 Apr 2005:

The IRA should "lead by example" and "unilaterally" abandon paramilitary violence and adopt a purely political strategy, a leading Sinn Féin MP urged yesterday.

* 2007 , ‘(Helen Brooks)’, His Christmas Bride :

*:"But this meal tonight is not a date, not in the traditional sense. It's purely platonic, I assure you."

Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault.

* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), Troilus and Cressida , First Folio, IV.7:

faith and troth, / Strain'd purely from all hollow bias drawing: / Bids thee with most diuine integritie, / From heart of very heart, great Hector welcome.

* 1823 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Table Talk :

By some means or other the water flows purely , and separated from the filth, in a deeper and narrower course on one side of the rock, and the refuse of the dirt and troubled water goes off on the other in a broader current [...].

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Adverb

(en-adv)

In a full manner; without lack or defect.

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In a full degree; to a full extent.

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The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.

As a minimum; at least.

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