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pure and simple purely and simply - for only one reason or purpose. They built their cabin at the lake for enjoyment, pure and simple. See also: pure pure and simple plainly, and without having to say anything else. They closed the museum because, pure and simple, it cost too much to run. No one talked about issues or referred to facts — it was just gossip, pure and simple. Usage notes: sometimes used in the form purely and simply: It was purely and simply the most marvelous vacation. See also: pure |
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She saw her darling gradually cease from being her son, she saw THAT detail perish utterly; all that was left was master--master, pure and simple, and it was not a gentle mastership, either. The most of King Arthur's British nation were slaves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wore the iron collar on their necks; and the rest were slaves in fact, but without the name; they imagined them- selves men and freemen, and called themselves so. It was more, far more; a country-house built for enjoyment pure and simple, with not an acre of troublesome land attached to it beyond what was required for residential purposes, and for a little fancy farm kept in hand by the owner, and tended by a bailiff. |
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