(superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
(superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
(superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
(superl.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
(superl.) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
(2) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(3) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
(4) Of the three patients with a pure or predominantly endometrioid pattern treated with diethylstilbestrol, two had a marked clinical response.
(5) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(6) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(7) Enzyme activities were measured on nitrocellulose blots by using pure enzyme preparations as well as Triton X-100-solubilized membranes.
(8) A critical attitude towards the use of silicone breast implants, when these are used for purely cosmetic purposes, is recommended at present.
(9) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
(10) Of the two major forms of cytotactin (220 and 200 kDa), the larger form predominated during development of the mouse brain and also predominated in mixed neuron-glia cultures but not in pure glial cultures.
(11) Embryonal carcinomas were found in 15 tumours, two being of pure type and the remaining 13 a part of mixed tumours.
(12) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
(13) Differential plating yielded relatively pure populations of chromaffin cells that demonstrated excellent viability if processed within 2 hours after cessation of the gland's circulation.
(14) Homogenates of these cells in chloroform-methanol solution showed an identical absorption spectrum with pure bilirubin dissolved in the same solution.
(15) An autopsy on the next day revealed pure pulmonary alveolar hemorrhage without leukemic infiltration or inflammation.
(16) 0.5 to 1 gram pure Bismuth per day and person leaves the patients naturally by faeces.
(17) Moreover, exposure to a pure 60 Hz electric field or to a magnetically-induced electric field of identical strength resulted in similar changes in calcium transport.
(18) Pure sarcomas of the esophagus are exceedingly rare.
(19) Confirmation of the identity of the clone was provided by a match between the amino acid sequence predicted from the cDNA sequence and the actual amino acid sequence determined for a tryptic peptide fragment of one of the pure glycoproteins.
(20) Six were benign, 11 malignant fibrous, and 3 pure malignant histiocytomas.
Untainted
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(2) The son of a civil engineer, who lives in a rented apartment in a run-down district of Athens with his high-school sweetheart and two young children, Tsipras belongs to a generation untainted by power.
(3) But that does not mean we shouldn't aspire to more of the untainted kind.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ex-Guantánamo detainee Shaker Aamer tells of brutal treatment Since its 2013 inception for reviewing “forever prisoners” – those detainees deemed too dangerous to release but for whom the administration lacks sufficient untainted evidence to charge with an offense – the review board has cleared 15 detainees for release out of 21 reviewed, a pace that human rights activists and even administration officials have warned is insufficient for Obama to close Guantánamo in his final year in office.
(5) Decades of government intransigence over calls to liberalise the marijuana sector means that Jamaica is light years behind western Europe and the US in terms of establishing laboratory and research infrastructure, official distribution networks, finding merchants untainted by the criminal underworld, and an organised framework of governance.
(6) Once reliable certification and product labelling were in place, consumers could make enlightened choices to purchase goods untainted by slavery, child labour, or other forms of extreme exploitation.
(7) We need to rebuild the reputation of banks and bankers as trusted custodians of people's money, giving objective, impartial advice untainted by opportunities for personal gain, and at the same time make banking transactions as frictionless as possible.
(8) An elegant doctor, former foreign minister and distant relative of the deposed king, Rassoul is the only candidate to have a woman on his slate and even after years in government has stayed untainted by the allegations of corruption that have followed so many other officials.
(9) A university chancellor and ex-finance minister, he was a public intellectual nominated for secretary general of the UN, untainted by corruption rumours that swirl round many powerful Afghans.
(10) Another novelty, in a country where recent polls suggest suspicion both of Putin's ruling party and the opposition, is that Navalny is untainted by association with power in the 1990s.
(11) Some take a pragmatic "good enough" approach to working with and supporting officials they consider relatively untainted.
(12) The sale of shares offered investors exposure to Britain’s economic recovery through a bank untainted by the investigations into past misconduct that have hampered some of its larger rivals.
(13) Graft scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right, as well as businesses, unions and football clubs.
(14) His original books are standing still, untainted by association, their author rich and blithe.
(15) Untainted by power, uncompromised by broken promises and not implicated in the cuts, they would still be playing their old role of party of protest.
(16) They stop short of announcing they have embraced macramé and basket weaving, but the suggestion is that the Dead Weather exists to uphold the lineage of all things untainted by modernity.
(17) See if you can dodge all my bear traps, and declare yourself untainted by tax havens.
(18) Fry has since characterised his friendship with Laurie as "untainted by any sort of schoolboy rivalry" and together the threesome went on to dominate the Footlights comedy club, winning the first Perrier award at Edinburgh in 1981.
(19) Because Clegg was, before Thursday, little known to most voters, the Lib Dems are confident he is also largely untainted.
(20) They want their MP to work hard at Westminster and in the constituency; to be independent but also loyal; to be part of a representative assembly that reflects the diversity of modern Britain, but usually a white bloke; to be full-time, untainted and talented, but also not to cost much in pay, moats or duck houses.