Purely
['pjʊəlɪ] or ['pjʊrli]
Definition
(adv.) In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).
(adv.) Nicely; prettily.
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Examples
- Investigation of these cases, however, revealed invariably the purely fraudulent nature of all such offers, which were uniformly declined. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Artificial purely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The history of Panama is American history purely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A wife, a modest young lady, with the purely appreciative, unambitious abilities of her sex, is sure to think her husband's mind powerful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I can understand that you may hesitate to analyse it from a purely impartial point of view. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But I should like them to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And all this was to have come without study or other inconvenience, purely by the favor of providence in the shape of an old gentleman's caprice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But without much success: his contact with American life is not direct, and so he is capable of purely theoretical affirmations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As the years went on, she lost more and more count of the world, she seemed rapt in some glittering abstraction, almost purely unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Their isolation, and consequently their purely arbitrary going together, is canceled; a unified developing situation takes its place. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At the same time I recognize that the evidence is purely circumstantial, and that some new development may upset it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Purely negative as yet, my friend answered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The questions treated in it were purely naval. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was not a moment to be wasted on the purely speculative question of Betteredge's conscience. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The more purely mental it is, the more independent or self-sufficing is it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is a purely accidental ingredient, and one not at all desirable. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The former is then thought to be purely intellectual and cognitive; the latter to be an irrelevant and intruding physical factor. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It has found an intelligent outlet for forces that would otherwise be purely cataclysmic. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was purely intangible, yet so near. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She had thousands of years of purely sensual, purely unspiritual knowledge behind her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The higher the activity the more purely mental is it; the less does it have to do with physical things or with the body. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If it is a purely arbitrary one, it may be impossible for us to solve it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The conception of mind as a purely isolated possession of the self is at the very antipodes of the truth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His greatest passions seem to be purely administrative and legal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- On the one hand, purely external direction is impossible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Greek education was almost purely _viva-voce_ education; it could reach therefore only to a limited aristocracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- V, adopting purely and simply the arrangement of the American, Langley, which offers a good stability. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He lay still in this strange, horrific reeling for some time, purely unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mind as Purely Individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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