simon-pure

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si·mon-pure (s

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adj.

1. Genuinely and thoroughly pure.

2. Superficially or hypocritically virtuous.

[From the phrase the real Simon Pure, after Simon Pure, a character in the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723).]

simon-pure

adj

real; genuine; authentic

[from the phrase the real Simon Pure, name of a character in the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717) by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723) who is impersonated by another character in some scenes]

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Genuineness			He's a labrick--just a Simon-pure labrick, if there was one. Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context And soon the bell--a genuine, simon-pure bell --rang, and we were invited to "the saloon. The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context But the surprise rose higher still when the dame, with a body oozing easy indifference at every pore, but eyes that gave it all away by absolutely flaming with vanity, slowly unfolded an actual simon-pure tablecloth and spread it. A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context			simitar Simla SIMM Simmental simmer simmer dim simmer down simmering simmpleness simnel simnel cake simoleon simoleons Simon Simon Bolivar Simon de Montfort Simon Kuznets Simon Legree Simon Magus Simon Marks Simon Newcomb Simon Peter Simon the Canaanite Simon the Zealot Simon Zelotes simon-pure Simone de Beauvoir Simone Weil simoniac Simoniacal Simonial Simonian Simonides Simonides of Ceos Simonious Simonise simonism Simonist Simoniz simonize simony simoom simoon Simous simp Simpai simpatico simper Simperer simpering simperingly			Simon, Gunter Simon, Günter Simon, Herbert Simon, Herbert A. Simon, Herbert Alexander Simon, Istvan Simon, István Simon, John Simon, John Allsebrook Simon, John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, Jules Simon, Konstantin Simon, Konstantin Romanovich Simon, Neil Simon, Neil Simon, Norton Simon, Paul Simon, Paul Simon, Richard Simon, Saint Simon, Saint Simon, St Simon, Théodore Simon, William Simon, William Edward Simon, Yves Simon-Kucher & Partners simon-pure Simona Simona Simonaitite, Eva Simonas Daukantas Simonas Stanevicius Simonds, Ossian Cole Simondsia paradoxa Simone Simone Simone Beauvoir Simone Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Bouvoir Simone de Bouvoir Simone de Bovoir Simone de Bovoir Simone di Martini Simone di Martino Simone Martini Simone Memmi Simone Weil Simone Weil Simone, Nina Simonet, Albertine Simonetta simoniac simoniac simoniac simoniacal

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