PURITY

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


Proper noun

Purity

A female given name from English from the virtue purity.

Etymology

Noun

purity (countable and uncountable, plural purities)

The state or degree of being pure.

Antonyms

• 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



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