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Simon Pure colloq.
Also Simon-Pure, Simon-pure, simon-pure.
[The name of a Quaker in Mrs. Centlivre's comedy A bold stroke for a wife (1717), who is impersonated by another character during part of the play.]
a. the (real) Simon Pure, the real, genuine, or authentic person or thing.
[1785‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes ix. 28 Flattery's a Mountebank so spruce—get riches; Truth, a plain Simon Pure, a Quaker Preacher.] 1795T. Wilkinson Wandering Patentee III. 34 She in her rage denounced vengeance heartily, and said that she would advertise my production as a flimsy disgraceful imposture: But she was mistaken—for mine was the true Simon Pure. 1815Scott Guy M. lvi, ‘Here,’ proceeded the counsellor, ‘is the real Simon Pure—here's Godfrey Bertram Hewit’. a1832― Monast. Introduction note, Each insisting that his Jedediah Cleishbotham was the real Simon Pure. 1860W. C. Prime Boat Life Egypt xxxiii. 357 If we would come with him the other way he would show us the real mummy, the Simon Pure. 1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluchistan 381, I believe the real Simon pure had been in the crowd all the time.
b. attrib. or as adj. Real, genuine, authentic. Also, pure, unadulterated; honest, upright.
1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xli. 436 Soon the bell—a genuine, simon-pure bell—rang. 1889Cent. Mag. Jan. 337 The home of the Simon-pure wild horse is on the southern plains. 1894Howells Trav. fr. Altruria 125 If you want to see American individuality, the real, simon-pure article. 1913Jrnl. Industr. & Engin. Chem. June 504/1 Willard Gibbs..was simon pure—in his best days he did not soil his hands even with the grime of a laboratory. 1945R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 282 The unsullied, Simon-Pure principles of proletarian ideology. 1951Manch. Guardian Weekly 28 June 2/3 The [drug] peddlers have gone underground and the specified retailers have turned Simon-pure. 1974Jrnl. Ecumenical Stud. Winter 119 The simon-pure neutrality of church leaders, paralyzed by their own myth of ‘even-handedness’, has embarrassed in a new way the relations between individual Christians and Jews. |