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

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Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent.

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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.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 19, author=Kerry Brown, work=The Guardian

, title= Kim Jong-il obituary , passage=With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.}}

Exclusively and solely.