pure definition

1. free of extraneous elements of any kind
• examples: pure air and water
• examples: pure gold
• examples: pure primary colors
• examples: the violin's pure and lovely song
• examples: pure tones
• examples: pure oxygen
2. free from discordant qualities
3. concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
• examples: pure science
4. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; - Sylvia Plath
• examples: I felt pure and sweet as a new baby
• examples: pure as the driven snow
5. in a state of sexual virginity
• examples: pure and vestal modesty
• examples: a spinster or virgin lady
• examples: men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal