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not mixed; "pure oxygen" absolute in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" chaste concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science" theoretical free from discordant qualities harmonious used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow" immaculate, white free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin''s pure and lovely song"; "pure tones" axenic, clean, fine, native, plain, pristine, purified, unadulterated, unalloyed, uncontaminated, virginal (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black intense |
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