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pure

/ˈpjʊɚ/ noun C2
  1. One who, or that which, is pure. (countable, uncountable)

Plural pures

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Her hair was pure gold rippling back from her alabaster brow.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 22 · C1
And yet once or twice he saw the pure gold of this girl shine through the mist that his egotism had raised between him and all objects.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 31 · C1
Gardiner; and, after relating the circumstances, she thus went on:--“I am now convinced, my dear aunt, that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 174 · B2
Dorothy still wore the pretty silk dress she had put on in the palace, but now, to her surprise, she found it was no longer green, but pure white.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 77 · B2

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