Many of these were purely academic as no Catholic presence yet existed in the area.

This scientific debate was not, however, a purely academic one.

When I first began my work on psychohistory, it seemed a purely academic piece of research to me.

He knew that Perry's plans for slaughter were purely academic.

"Under these circumstances the question of arresting the man is a purely academic one."

Most of these were purely academic as there was no Catholic presence in the area.

Even the scholars making the argument find it to be purely academic.

Their study was not a purely academic exercise, as they state in the introduction of the book's English translation.

They were interesting points; but purely academic at this stage.

You know better than I do that this coordination exercise has been, up to now, a purely academic one.