clear pure, innocent, free from evil:
“a clear life ensuing,”
THE TEMPEST, iii. 3. 82
;
“you clear heavens”
TIMON OF ATHENS, iv. 3. 27
(
“may mean either ye cloudless
skies or ye deities exempt from guilt,”
STEEVENS)
;
“in that clear way thou goest,”
PERICLES, iv. 6. 105
;
“for the sake Of clear virginity,”
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, i. 1.
31
;
“In his clear bed might have reposed still,”
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 382
;
“the clearest gods,”
KING LEAR, iv. 6. 73.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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