purely and simply

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• purely and simply — phrase used for emphasis The reason was purely and simply that they didn’t listen. Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing what you are sayinghyponym to emphasize what you are sayingsynonym Main entry: purely …   Useful english dictionary

• purely and simply — for only one reason or purpose. They closed the museum purely and simply because it cost too much to run …   New idioms dictionary

• purely and simply — used for emphasis The reason was purely and simply that they didn t listen …   English dictionary

• purely — [[t]pjʊ͟ə(r)li[/t]] 1) ADV: ADV with cl/group (emphasis) You use purely to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the most important feature or that it is the only thing which should be considered. It is a racing machine, designed purely… …   English dictionary

• purely — adverb 1 completely and only, without anything else being involved: a decision that was taken for purely political reasons | I bumped into Sally purely by chance. 2 purely and simply used to emphasize that only one reason or purpose is involved… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• purely — pure|ly [ pjurli ] adverb ** completely, or as the only issue or reason: What I m saying is purely my own point of view. He got together with her purely for business reasons. purely and simply used for emphasis: The reason was purely and simply… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• purely — pure|ly W3S2 [ˈpjuəli US ˈpjurli] adv completely and only ▪ a decision made for purely political reasons ▪ The building was closed purely on the grounds of safety. ▪ It happened purely by chance . ▪ I do it purely and simply for the money …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• purely */*/ — UK [ˈpjʊə(r)lɪ] / US [ˈpjʊrlɪ] adverb completely, or as the only issue or reason What I m saying is purely my own point of view. He got together with her purely for business reasons. • purely and simply …   English dictionary

• Fichte and Schilling: the Jena period — Daniel Breazeale FROM KANT TO FICHTE An observer of the German philosophical landscape of the 1790s would have surveyed a complex and confusing scene, in which individuals tended to align themselves with particular factions or “schools,”… …   History of philosophy

• Jansenius and Jansenism — • The subject of this article lived three quarters of a century later than his namesake. He was born 28 October, 1585, of a Catholic family, in the village of Accoi, near Leerdam, Holland; died at Ypres, 6 May, 1638 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Purely functional — is a term in computing used to describe algorithms, data structures or programming languages that exclude destructive modifications (updates). According to this restriction, variables are used in a mathematical sense, with identifiers referring… …   Wikipedia