Mere a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is rarely or never used.]
 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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