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Definition of Purity

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 Purity

1. n. The condition of being pure.

Definition of Purity

1. Noun. The state or degree of being pure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Purity

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purity

puristic puristical puristically purists puritanic puritanical puritanically puritanisms puritanize puritanized

puritanizes puritanizing puritans purities purity (current term) purity rings purl purl stitch purled purler

purlers purlicue purlicued purlicues purlieu purlieus purlieux purlin

Literary usage of Purity

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

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"purity AND VOLATILITY OF PRECIPITATED ANTIMONY SULPHIDE. ... purity. (i) As a preliminary experiment in the investigation of the purity of the precipitated ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"The process of manufacture is one which requires great care; and it seems thnt it is at least difficult to insure the purity of chloral, if made in large ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"and since this being is regarded as ethical in essence, the conception of holiness is that of ethical purity. When, then, in Amos iv. ..."

4. The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Résumé for by May Wright Sewall (1894)
"The National Christian League for the Promotion of Social purity was ... The league aims to establish a single standard of purity, or to secure the same ..."

5. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1843)
"The reputation of continence and purity prevails in favor of those who are called after Rama ; whilst those who take their title from Krishna are ill-famed ..."

6. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1826)
"The Constitution of the Reformed Society of Israelites, for promoting true Principles of Judaism according to its purity and Spirit. Founded in Charleston. ..."

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