Definition of Mere

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Definition of Mere
	Mere A pool or lake. A boundary. To divide, limit, or bound. A mare. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. Related Definitions: Absolute, And, As, Bare, Bound, Boundary, Boy, Divide, Else, Entire, Form, Lake, Limit, Mare, Mere, More, No, Nothing, Only, Or, Pool, Pure, Simple, Such, This, To

Mere Quotations

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mohandas Gandhi

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Mere Translations

mere in Dutch is louter, enkel, bloot
mere in Portuguese is mero
mere in Swedish is idel, ren, blott och bar

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