| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | si·mon-pure |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s  m n-py r |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Genuinely and thoroughly pure. 2. Superficially or hypocritically virtuous. | | ETYMOLOGY: | 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).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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