Synonym: strictly. Similar words: rely, barely, rely on, sincerely, entirely, severely, relatively, spurn. Meaning: ['pjʊrlɪ /'pjʊəlɪ] adv. restricted to something.
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121. Are the competing views purely academic debates, or do they also reflect wider social interests? 4.
122. Her work became more purely abstract, and yet refused to conform to the Puritan style often associated with abstract art.
123. Purely classical ballets are still popular, so there have to be choreographers who understand and mould the technique.
124. The purely aesthetic value of their work is easy to appreciate.
125. Such transactions are recorded in a separate set of books from purely domestic banking business.
126. From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, I must say that I dislike the design of the volume and tone pots intensely.
127. They seem to lay claim to being purely of the mind's eye, a manifestation of pure objectivity.
128. The formal agreement between the two parties is based purely upon an agreed discount rate.
129. Even something as purely physical as exercising brings its own awareness.
130. Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
131. It is better not to extend what was, after all, an accidental and purely professional relationship.
132. It is at this point that the nation state begins to acquire a psychological as well as a purely administrative significance.
133. But my rivalry with Tuffers will be purely professional because there is no personal animosity between us.
134. It has a network architecture for high-performance and referential integrity, but also allows purely relational systems to be built where required.
135. Those who posit a purely biological basis for this phenomenon are ignoring the class or political element.
136. Being purely quantitative measures,(sentencedict.com) they fail to illuminate qualitative advances.
137. There are people who are dancing through life and others who are crying through life. The irony is that life is the same-what we do is purely our choice. RVM
138. One could be forgiven, however, for viewing this as a purely academic philosophy.
139. All the stuff I do at the gym is purely aesthetic, just for looks.
140. Deputy Coroner Mr Pollard recorded verdicts of accidental death and said he was satisfied what had happened had been purely an accident.
141. Such thoughts were not purely abstract,(http://sentencedict.com/purely.html) but directed towards Eliot's own values and to London.
142. But the motive for following a composite career is often not purely financial.
143. But a serious accident can cause far more than purely physical damage.
144. Moral standards go by the board in an atmosphere that seems generated purely for the above purposes.
145. The Association exists purely for the benefit of assistant managers.
146. In doing so, it departs from the traditional, purely stylistic approach to classical art.
147. As well as these purely ceremonial occasions, the Emperor attended two councils of war which were held to discuss the Crimean campaign.
148. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. Buddha
149. But asking which of these young overseas players is the better is purely academic.
150. The study is an embarrassment for the lord chancellor, who insists that appointments are made purely on merit.