The IRA should "lead by example" and "unilaterally" abandon paramilitary violence and adopt a purely political strategy, a leading Sinn Féin MP urged yesterday.
2007, ‘(w)’, His Christmas Bride:
"But this meal tonight is not a date, not in the traditional sense. It's purely platonic, I assure you."
1623, (w), Troilus and Cressida, First Folio, IV.7:
faith and troth, / Strain'd purely from all hollow bias drawing: / Bids thee with most diuine integritie, / From heart of very heart, great Hector welcome.
puhekieltä Without physical adulterants; refinedly, with no admixture. (defdate)
1823, (w), Table Talk:
By some means or other the water flows purely, and separated from the filth, in a deeper and narrower course on one side of the rock, and the refuse of the dirt and troubled water goes off on the other in a broader current ....