| Library / English Dictionary |
PURELY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Restricted to something
Example:
we talked strictly business
Synonyms:
purely; strictly
Classified under:
Context examples:
If I may state my intellectual position I am, so far as concerns things purely terrestrial, somewhat in the position which Enoch occupied spiritually!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
‘What do you call purely nominal?’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The mesenchymal cellular component ranges from cartilaginous and osseous, to purely sarcomatous.
(Mixed Epithelial/Mesenchymal Metaplastic Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
However, they conceded that it was purely speculative, and several other scientists have cautioned against linking these bursts to possible alien intelligence.
(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The dwarf planet's various crater forms are consistent with an outer shell for Ceres that is not purely ice or rock, but rather a mixture of both — a conclusion reflected in other analyses.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
The excitement which had been caused through those parts of South America which we had to traverse was imagined by us to be purely local, and I can assure our friends in England that we had no notion of the uproar which the mere rumor of our experiences had caused through Europe.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A general confessed, in my presence, that he got a victory purely by the force of cowardice and ill conduct; and an admiral, that, for want of proper intelligence, he beat the enemy, to whom he intended to betray the fleet.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The questions treated in it were purely naval.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is purely a matter of business.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
