Hypertext Webster Gateway: "merest"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mere \Mere\, a. [Superl. {Merest}. The comparative is rarely or
never used.] [L. merus.]
1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.

Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman.

The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
--Jer. Taylor.

2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple;
bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor
of any nation. --Atterbury.

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