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Contrary to popular belief, the point of studying verbal aggression is not to modify or ameliorate or eliminate it — serious scholars consider it bad form to tamper with the evidence — but to describe and codify it, much as investigators have tried to do with all other available phenomena, whether natural or artificial, whether in pure or physical or social science.

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  1. adjective Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed: pure oxygen.
  2. adjective Free from adulterants or impurities: pure chocolate.
  3. adjective Free of dirt, defilement, or pollution: "A memory without blot or contamination must be . . . an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment” (Charlotte Brontë).
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  • Possibly it was the horror and rage and anger connected with the first affair, combined with the fact that it became actually sensual, which prevented him from having afterwards what one might without priggishness describe as a pure passion. —  The Private Life of Henry Maitland
  • I looked upon it as a pure waste of time and ingenuity to write when one has no thoughts of one's own to express. —  Recollections of My Youth
  • Contrary to popular belief, the point of studying verbal aggression is not to modify or ameliorate or eliminate it — serious scholars consider it bad form to tamper with the evidence — but to describe and codify it, much as investigators have tried to do with all other available phenomena, whether natural or artificial, whether in pure or physical or social science. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
  • Gesenius-Robinson, by the way, translates bethulah as "a virgin pure and unspotted," "a virgin just married," and "a young spouse" (see Joel 1: 8, where bethulah is translated by the Septuagint as nymphe, "a betrothed woman, a bride," "a recently married woman, young wife" -- —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
  • Q-u-i-n-. —  Masterpieces in Miniature
 

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  1. Middle English pur, from Old French, from Latin pūrus; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English pure, pur, from Old French (and F.) pur, masculine, pure, feminine, = Spanish Portuguese Italian puro, from Latin purus, clean, free from dirt or filth, hence free from extraneous matter, plain, unadorned, unwrought, unoccupied, also free from fault or taint, as speech or morals, in law free from conditions, unconditional; akin to putus, clear (see pute), and to Sanskrit √ pu, purify. From Latin purus are also ult. purity, puritan, purify, depure, depurate, etc., purge, purgation, etc., expurgate, spurge, etc.
  2. from Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur (in the phrase a pur, purely, absolutely), = Provencal pur, quite, = Italian pure, pur, however, nevertheless, though, from Latin pure, purely, plainly, simply, unconditionally, absolutely, from purus, pure, simple, unconditional: see pure, adjective This adverb exists unrecognized in purblind.
  3. from Middle English puren, from Old French purer, from Late Latin purare, make pure, purify (by religious rites), from Latin purus, pure: see pure, adjective
 

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