Definitions for purity
ˈpyʊər ɪ tipu·ri·ty

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. purity, purenessnoun

   being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

2. purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whitenessnoun

   the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

3. honor, honour, purity, purenessnoun

   a woman's virtue or chastity

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. puritynoun

   The state or degree of being pure.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Puritynoun

   Etymology: puritè, Fr. puritas, Lat.

   1. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.

   Her urn
   Pours streams select, and purity of waters. Matthew Prior.

   From the body’s purity, the mind
   Receives a secret aid. James Thomson, Summer.

   2. Freedom from guilt; innocence.

   Death sets us safely on shore in our long-expected Canaan, where there are no temptations, no danger of falling, but eternal purity and immortal joys secure our innocence and happiness for ever. William Wake, Preparation for Death.

   3. Chastity; freedom from contamination of sexes.

   Could I come to her with any detection in my hand, I could drive her then from the ward of her purity, her reputation, and her marriage vow. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. purity

   Purity is the state or quality of being uncontaminated, unmixed, unadulterated or undiluted. It denotes the level of cleanliness, clearness or absence of impurities, pollutants, or foreign substances. This term can be applied in various contexts such as science, morality, spirituality or personal character and usually refers to a pristine or original condition.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Puritynoun

   the condition of being pure

2. Puritynoun

   freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals

3. Puritynoun

   cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt

4. Puritynoun

   freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life

5. Puritynoun

   freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views

6. Puritynoun

   freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style

7. Etymology: [OE. purete, purte, OF. purt, F. puret, from L. puritas, fr. purus pure. See Pure.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Purity

   pūr′i-ti, n. condition of being pure: freedom from mixture of any kind: freedom from sin or defilement: chastity: sincerity: freedom from foreign or improper idioms or words.

The Roycroft DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. purity

   1. A rapt, interested and ecstatic aloofness toward natural processes. 2. A sewerage system that carries off everything, leaving the soul perfectly bald. 3. A condition of the mind that causes one to snoop around in garbage-dumps and start a league. 4. A plan of teaching things to children in which they are not interested. 5. An ethereal nose giving the miraculous power of sensing the lavatory in the Elysian Fields before it smells the flowers. (There is purity of mind, purity of body and purity of speech. Any one person endowed with all three of these modes or purity is blessed, elect, saved, or otherwise atrophied and pickled.)

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1. • Condition

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How to pronounce purity?

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How to say purity in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of purity in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of purity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of purity in a Sentence

1. Barack Obama:

   One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, Uh, Im sorry, this is how its going to be, and then we start sometimes creating whats called a circular firing squad, where you start shooting at your allies because one of them has strayed from purity on the issues.

2. Jesse Gary:

   We're the only volume producer of high purity aluminum in the Western Hemisphere and among NATO allies.

3. Abhi Raynott:

   When you realize needing nothing attracts everything. You don't have to be perfect. You just need to be good. Good for yourself. Good for others. Well, for life. Do good and good will come to you. See the good and the good we will be in everything you look at. Beauty is in the magic of the soul, in the purity and sincerity of the heart. Everything else is an illusion.

4. Zin Eddine Dadach:

   The Greatness of our Dreams depends on the Purity of our Heart.

5. Blair Taylor:

   The idea that natural purity translates into racial or national purity, that was one that was very central to the Nazis’ environmental discourse. 'Unspoiled’ forest goes hand in hand with racial purity or something like that. The Nazis saw themselves as environmentalists.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=purity
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Purity
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=purity
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purity
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=purity
7. ^ The Roycroft Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36566/36566-h/36566-h.htm#:~:text=purity
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=purity