Purity
['pjʊərɪtɪ] or ['pjʊrəti]
Definition
(noun.) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil.
(noun.) being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material.
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Definition
(n.) The condition of being pure.
(n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.
(n.) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.
(n.) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.
(n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.
(n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cleanness, clearness, immaculateness.[2]. Innocence, virtue, guiltlessness, guilelessness, holiness, honesty, integrity.[3]. Genuineness, excellence.[4]. Modesty, chastity.
Checker: Witt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cleanness, clearness, immaculateness, guiltlessness, innocence,[SeeINNOCENCE]
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Definition
n. condition of being pure: freedom from mixture of any kind: freedom from sin or defilement: chastity: sincerity: freedom from foreign or improper idioms or words.
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Examples
- Their extreme youth, and the purity of their attachment, made them yield with less resistance to the tyranny of circumstances. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Gold is seldom used for any purpose in a state of perfect purity on account of its softness, but is combined with some other metal to render it harder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Who shall tell how He between whom and the Woman God put enmity forged deadly plots to break the bond or defile its purity? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then they were stamped to indicate their fineness and guarantee their purity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The outcome of the mixture is perhaps less satisfactory than if either principle were adhered to in its purity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And in the fighting soon there was no purity of feeling for those who survived the fighting and were good at it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Rebecca's mother had had some education somewhere, and her daughter spoke French with purity and a Parisian accent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She looked so beautiful in the purity of her faith in this lost man, that her husband could have looked at her as she was for hours. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The pearl he admired was in itself of great price and truest purity, but he was not the man who, in appreciating the gemcould forget its setting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then he gets up and calls on the name of the lily of purity, the baby-faced girl, and so enjoys himself all round. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Kimberlite of the Jagersfontein mine is free from pyrites, and to that is attributed the remarkable brilliancy and purity of color for which the diamonds of this mine are celebrated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As the essential ingredients of the best baking powder are baking soda and cream of tartar we need only be careful in buying of honest grocers or druggists who will guarantee their purity. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He had converted the industry into a new and terrible purity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The purity and gracefulness of design in many cases remain as standards for our best craftsmen today. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In spite of father's being so particular about purity of blood, some of the women are of Arab descent. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Ludwig