Meanings
- not comparableIn 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 491 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinin puris naturalibus
- Englishin puris naturalibus
Borrowed from Latin in puris naturalibus.
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