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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
