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Some thought that only the pure should be admitted to the Church, since the purity of the church was to found in its members, and especially its bishops.

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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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  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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