Purey vs Purer - What's the difference?
purey | purer |
A marble, of the sort used in playing marbles, that is one solid color through and through.
*1957 , , 1991 LB Books edition, page 76,
*:... an unclouded blue marble (known to marble shooters, at least in the twenties, as a "purey "),... (pure)
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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 a noun purey
is a marble, of the sort used in playing marbles, that is one solid color through and through.As an adjective purer is
(pure).purey
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(s)purer
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Adjective
(head)pure
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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 .
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.}}
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.