Purely and Rather

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Purely adverb - With purity of thought and deed.

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Rather and purely are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rather" instead an adverb "Purely".

Nearby Words: pure, purity

Rather adverb - By choice or preference.

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Purely and rather are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Purely" instead an adverb "Rather".

You would expect people rebelling against the government for purely ideological reasons to be rather well-educated.

Source: Machinima / An Empire Revisited
Broken Aesop: Stitch is racking up points for good deeds purely for his own benefit, rather than because they're the right thing to do.

Source: Anime / Stitch!
That said, there's no way of knowing what it really looks like, if it even has a "true" form at all, rather than being purely amorphous.

Source: Animalistic Abomination

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