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Definition of Pureness

1. Noun. Being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material.

2. Noun. The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil.

3. Noun. A woman's virtue or chastity.

Definition of Pureness

1. n. The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

Definition of Pureness

1. Noun. The quality of being pure; purity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pureness

1. the quality of being pure [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pureness

pureblood pureblooded purebloods purebred purebreds pured puree pureed pureeing purees

purely purely and simply purely imaginary purely imaginary number purely imaginary numbers pureness (current term) purenesses pureplay purer pures

purest purey pureys purfile purfiles purfle purfled purfler purflers purfles

Literary usage of Pureness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Unity became independent: the only bond of union being now the General Synod held once every ten years. an, faith in Jesus, and pureness in heart. ..."

2. Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold (1880)
"But, on the other hand, how high, clear, and splendid is his pureness ; and how intimately does its might enter into the voice of his poetry ! ..."

3. Listening to God by Hugh Black (1906)
"/v I XXVI THE CHARM OF GOODNESS He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. ..."

4. Life in the Moslem East by Pierre Ponafidine (1911)
"... and Fellaheen—Gradations between their Tribes, Sub-tribes and Families—Care in Preserving pureness of Blood—Sheikhs, ..."

5. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"To recollect and contract that which hath been said, this pureness is not a purifying pureness, to correct and reform those things that appertain not to us; ..."

6. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"Ovid, May the idea of pureness, extending itself even to the very morsel which I take into Mathematic form is eternal in the reasoning: memory; living: form ..."

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