simon-pure

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: si=mon-pure

CIDE DICTIONARY

simon-pure, a. 

 Genuine; true; real; authentic; -- a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure, who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the “real Simon Pure.”  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

simon-pure, adj. real, genuine.

Etymology

(the real) Simon Pure, a character in Centlivre's Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717)

ROGET THESAURUS

simon-pure

Purity

N purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.