Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not contaminated; not adulterated; pure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not contaminated; pure.
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- adjective archaic Not
contaminated ;pure .
Etymologies
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Examples
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American light, occupying your mind with noble literature, pure, solitary, incontaminate -- a station from which the touch of this vulgar epistle will instantly bring you down; for you will have been imagining your poor correspondent in the same high and abstract fashion until what he says breaks the charm (as infallibly it must), and with the perception of his finiteness must also come a faint sense of discouragement as if you were finite too -- for communications bring the communicants to a common level.
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Show us, in fine, by some fact, that you intend not only to improve the physical condition of your own few subjects, but that you embrace in your love the twenty-four millions of Italians, your brothers; that you believe them called by God to unite in family unity under one and the same compact; that you would bless the national banner, wherever it should be raised by pure and incontaminate hands; and leave the rest to us.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
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