simon-pure
adjective
[ sʌɪmənˈpjʊə ]
• completely genuine, authentic, or honest.
• "they were not so simon-pure as the image they presented to the public"
Origin:
late 18th century: from (the real) Simon Pure, a character in Centlivre's Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717), who for part of the play is impersonated by another character.
