honor, honour, purity, pureness
(noun) a woman’s virtue or chastity
purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness
(noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
purity, pureness
(noun) being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Purity
A female given name from English from the virtue purity.
purity (countable and uncountable, plural purities)
The state or degree of being pure.
• impurity
Source: Wiktionary
Pu"ri*ty, n. Etym: [OE. purete, purte, OF. purté, F. pureté, from L. puritas, fr. purus pure. See Pure.]
Definition: The condition of being pure. Specifically: (a) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. (b) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. (c) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life. (d) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. (e) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
