Pure, unmixed, unalloyed; undiluted, unadulterated. Cf. mere-white adj. at compounds. Obsolete.

Left without any addition; not strengthened or increased in any way; bare, mere; (also) †absolute (obsolete).

Without addition, mere, simple; —— and nothing else, —— only. bare contract in Law: an unconditional promise or surrender.

Chiefly attributive. Taken by itself, with nothing added; that is the thing specified, and nothing else; no more than; mere, simple.

Simple; plain; without further qualification or addition. Obsolete.

With a limiting or restrictive force: That alone to the exclusion of any thing else; = mere, adj.2 5.

Open, explicit; mere, plain. Obsolete.

Pure and simple, mere; in the strictest sense. Obsolete.

Mere, bare, simple. Obsolete.

Simple, plain, undisguised. Obsolete. rare.

Sheer, mere, bare, unaided. Obsolete.