PURELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purely mean? 

• PURELY (adverb)
  The adverb PURELY has 1 sense:

1. restricted to something

  Familiarity information: PURELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restricted to something

Synonyms:

purely; strictly

Context example:

we talked strictly business

 Context examples 

If it is a purely arbitrary one, it may be impossible for us to solve it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But let's not forget that tobacco, although it is a source of pleasure for some - I don't know, I don't smoke - is a purely toxic element.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

“Well, then,” replied Miss Crawford, laughing, “I must suppose it to be purely for the pleasure of conveying your brother, and of talking of you by the way.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Well, since you never said so, and Mr. Phelps never said so, and nobody else knew anything of the matter, then the thief’s presence in the room was purely accidental.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Therefore it was not for any real value, but for a purely fictitious value that Judge Blount invited him to dinner.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

NOTE(S): This class is a resolution of the requirement for noting the type of an identifier which is not handled by the purely technical HL7 II data type.

(Biologic Entity Identifier, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A classification system for grading pathological remission based purely on microscopic assessment.

(Miller and Payne Classification, NCI Thesaurus)

A purely morphologic term that describes a neoplasm in which all or the majority of the neoplastic cells have a clear cytoplasm, when examined under light microscopy, using the conventional staining method (H-E).

(Clear Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

“You speak in purely materialistic terms,” she objected.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)