pureblood

American  

[pyoor-bluhd] / ˈpyʊərˌblʌd /

noun

1. an individual, especially an animal, whose ancestry consists of a single strain or type unmixed with any other.

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adjective

1. of or relating to a pureblood.

2. purebred.

Etymology

Origin of pureblood

First recorded in 1770–80; pure + blood

Example Sentences

“My father was a pureblood, a great man,” the author writes, “a Black Knight of raging firepower.”

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2012

He looked into Harry’s face and then said quietly, “James was a pureblood, Harry, and I promise you, he never asked us to call him ‘Prince.’”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

But Astoria—she didn’t want a baby for the Malfoy name, for pureblood or glory, but for us.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

The United States Census bulletin for 1890 gives the total number of pureblood Choctaw at 9,996, these being principally at Union Agency, Indian Territory.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

The Vicar, Father Luiz Gonsalvo Gomez, was a nearly pureblood Indian, a native of one of the neighbouring villages, but educated at Maranham, a city on the Atlantic seaboard.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter