simon-pure

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"Help yourself, but I'll tell you now it ain't any o 'the simon-pure moonshine we used to get in the old red hills.

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  1. adjective Genuinely and thoroughly pure.
  2. adjective Superficially or hypocritically virtuous.

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  • As the Young Doctor had said, Orlando Guise did not look like a real, simon-pure "cowpuncher." —  Wild Youth, Volume 1.
  • Healthy people do not have to live simon-pure lives to remain that way. —  How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
  • And soon the bell -- a genuine, simon-pure bell —  The Innocents Abroad
  • And moreover, he is a simon-pure, out-and-out, genuine d-- d Mexican plug, and an uncommon mean one at that, too. —  Roughing It
  • My secretary has spoken of an old Indian whom she knows, a perfect mine of simon-pure folk - lore. —  The Window-Gazer
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From the phrase the real Simon Pure, after Simon Pure, a character in the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723).

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  1. So called in allusion to Simon Pure, a character in Mrs. Centlivre's comedy, “A Bold Stroke for a Wife,” who is thwarted in his undertakings by an impostor who lays claim to his name and rights, and thus necessitates a complete identification of the “real Simon Pure” (v. 1).
 

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/ˈsaɪmənˈpjur/
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