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Definition of simon-pure in English: simon-pureadjectivesʌɪmənˈpjʊəˌsīmənˈpyo͝or Completely genuine, authentic, or honest. they were not so simon-pure as the image they presented to the public Example sentencesExamples - He stood for all these things with fairly good grace, willing enough to die for a simon-pure team if the opposition was to be equally simon-pure.
- Alfred is a simon-pure Republican, rocked in his cradle to the stirring rhythms of G.O.P. speeches, grown to a man sure to vote the party line.
- They've made a lot of noise, told each other how radically simon-pure they are, and accomplished nothing.
- Or are people like that simply not simon-pure enough for him to want them in his antiwar movement?
- He is presented as a simon-pure free trader whose ‘scrupulousness continued to the end.’
Synonyms authentic, real, actual, original, pukka, bona fide, true, veritable, unfeigned, unadulterated, unalloyed
Origin Late 18th century: from (the real) Simon Pure, a character in Centlivre's Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717), who for part of the play is impersonated by another character. Rhymes abjure, adjure, allure, amour, assure, Bahawalpur, boor, Borobudur, Cavour, coiffure, conjure, couture, cure, dastur, de nos jours, doublure, dour, embouchure, endure, ensure, enure, gravure, immature, immure, impure, inure, Jaipur, Koh-i-noor, Kultur, liqueur, lure, manure, moor, Moore, Muir, mure, Nagpur, Namur, obscure, parkour, photogravure, plat du jour, Pompadour, procure, pure, rotogravure, Ruhr, Saussure, secure, spoor, Stour, sure, tour, Tours, velour, Yom Kippur, you're Definition of simon-pure in US English: simon-pureadjectiveˌsīmənˈpyo͝or Completely genuine, authentic, or honest. they were not so simon-pure as the image they presented to the public Example sentencesExamples - They've made a lot of noise, told each other how radically simon-pure they are, and accomplished nothing.
- Alfred is a simon-pure Republican, rocked in his cradle to the stirring rhythms of G.O.P. speeches, grown to a man sure to vote the party line.
- He is presented as a simon-pure free trader whose ‘scrupulousness continued to the end.’
- He stood for all these things with fairly good grace, willing enough to die for a simon-pure team if the opposition was to be equally simon-pure.
- Or are people like that simply not simon-pure enough for him to want them in his antiwar movement?
Synonyms authentic, real, actual, original, pukka, bona fide, true, veritable, unfeigned, unadulterated, unalloyed
Origin Late 18th century: from (the real) Simon Pure, a character in Centlivre's Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717), who for part of the play is impersonated by another character. |