Mere means pure and simple, nothing more and nothing less. If the mere mention of someone's name makes you happy, then just hearing his name and that alone is enough to make you smile.
A pool or lake.
Noun
a small pond of standing water
n.
A pool or lake.
n.
A boundary.
v. t.
To divide, limit, or bound.
n.
A mare.
Superl.
Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
Superl.
Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple;
bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
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Which meared her rule with Africa.
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Then entered they the mere, main sea.
The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.2.
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation.
A pool or lake.
A boundary.
A mare.
Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
Usage Examples
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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Other Usage ExamplesBy mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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.
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
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