purity

pu·ri·ty  (pyr-t)

n.

1. The quality or condition of being pure.

2. A quantitative assessment of homogeneity or uniformity.

3. Freedom from sin or guilt; innocence; chastity: "Teach your children . . . the belief in purity of body, mind and soul" (Emmeline Pankhurst).

4. The absence in speech or writing of slang or other elements deemed inappropriate to good style.

5. The degree to which a color is free from being mixed with other colors.

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purity [ˈpjʊərɪtɪ]

n

1. the state or quality of being pure

2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) (Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colours

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Purity 

See Also: VIRTUE

1. Incapable of taint as gold of rust —Aeschylus
2. Pure and white as Rainier’s snows —Slogan, Mills flour
3. Pure as a salamander in the flames or wool among the brambles —Miguel de Cervantes
4. (I’m as) pure as driven slush —Tallulah Bankhead
5. Pure as snow —William Shakespeare
6. (I had grown) pure as the dawn and the dew —Algernon Charles Swinburne
7. Pure as the mountain air —Slogan, D. L. Clark candy
8. Pure as the sun —Stephen Vincent Benet
9. Pure in thought as angels —Samuel Rogers
10. She was as pure as snow and she drifted —Anon blurb for book, New York Times Book Review, November 2, 1986
11. Unblemished as the cloudless sky —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
12. Untouched as a nun —Wallace Stegner

    A variation on the same theme: “Pure as a nun” from Margaret Drabble’s novel, The Waterfall

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	purity - being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material pureness condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" plainness - the state of being unmixed with other material; "the plainness of vanilla ice cream" impureness, impurity - the condition of being impure
	2.	purity - the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil sinlessness, whiteness, innocence, pureness condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" cleanness - without moral defects
	3.	purity - a woman's virtue or chastity pureness, honor, honour sexual morality, chastity, virtue - morality with respect to sexual relations

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purity

noun

1. cleanness, clarity, cleanliness, brilliance, genuineness, wholesomeness, fineness, clearness, pureness, faultlessness, immaculateness, untaintedness the purity of the air in your working environment
cleanness contamination, impurity, cloudiness

2. innocence, virtue, integrity, honesty, decency, sincerity, virginity, piety, chastity, rectitude, guilelessness, virtuousness, chasteness, blamelessness The American Female Reform Society promoted sexual purity.
innocence impurity, immorality, vice, wickedness, immodesty, unchasteness

Translations

purity [ˈpjʊərɪtɪ] N → pureza f

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purity [ˈpjʊərɪti] n

[air, water] → pureté f

(= chasteness) [woman, girl] → pureté f

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purity

n → Reinheit f; (of motives) → Lauterkeit f (geh), → Ehrlichkeit f

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purity [ˈpjʊərɪtɪ] n → purezza

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