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in puris naturalibus en · ADV

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin in puris naturalibus.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a purely natural state; naked.
    • Boyles crouched against the wall in puris naturalibus, while Ned wrapped the magician's cape around his bare legs and flagged down the coach. 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 49:
    • Report has it, however, that when he returned from the wood he found the no longer fair lady firmly established in his bed, in puris naturalibus; or one should say, in impuris naturalibus. 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XVII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 316: