purity
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.
Origin of purity
1Other words from purity
- hy·per·pur·i·ty, noun
- su·per·pu·ri·ty, noun
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How to use purity in a sentence
The highest or organic purities are composed of many elements in an entirely helpful state.
Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) | John RuskinAfterwards he knew that she had enchanting hands—moving purities full of expressiveness—and slim little wrists.
In the Wilderness | Robert HichensNevertheless he was still looking back to all the old purities, was still trying to hear all the old voices.
In the Wilderness | Robert HichensThere are purities so intense that, like fire, they burn those who would handle them, however tenderly.
In the Wilderness | Robert HichensWe let puritan writers write about the purities of this ordinary man.
A Chesterton Calendar | G. K. Chesterton
British Dictionary definitions for purity
/ (ˈpjʊərɪtɪ) /
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
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