Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not adulterated; genuine; pure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not adulterated; pure.

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  • adjective archaic Not adulterated; pure.

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Examples

  • I can so picture myself arranging a night of pure unadulterate good fun, with one of those wrapped around my waist.

    Loincloths: The New Japanese Fashion Trend MJ 2006

  • Then if that is how the matter stands, ingratitude would be an instance of pure unadulterate wrongdoing?

    Memorabilia 2007

  • No, but he was wholly without irrational fear of it, a fear more prevalent in highly civilized communities than those so-called barbarous ones which in all respects stand nearer to unadulterate Nature.

    Billy Budd 1924

  • In Liverpool, now half a century ago, I saw under the shadow of the great dingy street-wall of Prince's Dock (an obstruction long since removed) a common sailor, so intensely black that he must needs have been a native African of the unadulterate blood of Ham.

    Billy Budd 1924

  • Then if that is how the matter stands, ingratitude would be an instance of pure unadulterate wrongdoing?

    The Memorabilia 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • The unadulterate is to be had only by faith in it or by waiting for it.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • The unadulterate is to be had only by faith in it or by waiting for it.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • That was while he was still with no very grave misgivings as to the issue of his sickness, and felt the sources of life still springing essentially unadulterate within him.

    Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866

  • But scattered through its half-deserted rooms, state bed - chambers and the like, hung the works of more genuine masters, still as unadulterate as the hock, known to be two generations old, in the grand-ducal cellar.

    Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

  • But scattered through its half-deserted rooms, state bed-chambers and the like, hung the works of more genuine masters, still as unadulterate as the hock, known to be two generations old, in the grand-ducal cellar.

    Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

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