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purity
[ pyoor-i-tee ]
noun
- the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.:
the purity of drinking water.
- freedom from any admixture or modifying addition.
- ceremonial or ritual cleanness.
- freedom from guilt or evil; innocence.
- physical chastity; virginity.
- freedom from foreign or inappropriate elements; careful correctness:
purity of expression.
- Optics. the chroma, saturation, or degree of freedom from white of a given color.
- cleanness or spotlessness, as of garments.
purity
/ ˈpjʊərɪtɪ /
noun
- the state or quality of being pure
- physics a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colours
Other Words From
- hyper·puri·ty noun
- super·puri·ty noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.
Other artisans see purity and integrity in their craft and have no dream of becoming recognized as the author of their own work.
The family also believed that inbreeding was central to both preserving the family fortune and ensuring “purity of blood.”
Molendorp is exhausted by the “constant purity exams” being conducted by his fellow party members.
Wilson explained that, unlike some of the other forms of early religion, Pauline Christianity had been based on purity.
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?
Unfortunately Massna's record was not such as to inspire confidence in the purity of his intentions.
In employing these heavy pressures of wind, increased purity and beauty of tone should alone be aimed at.
But they all possess that essential purity and richness of tone without which there is no real excellence.
There are a few which possess both sweetness and purity, and they rank with the small Amatis.
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