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. Lao Tzu:

   Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

2. Bjoern Marzahn:

   We as environment authorities are responsible for air purity and it's our responsibility to make sure inhabitants don't get sick (because of pollution), i believe there is sympathy for this from car drivers.

3. Cicero:

   A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

4. Professor Jacobson:

   This is an attempt not just to scare Black Law Students Association away from my course, but to scare Black Law Students Association away from speaking Black Law Students Association minds, and to create a faculty and student purity test, this isnt activism, its anti-intellectualism. I dont think it will work, and there will be a backlash.

5. Adolf Hitler:

   A people that fails to preserve the purity of its racial blood thereby destroys the unity of the soul of the national in all its manifestations. A disintegrated national character is the inevitable consequence of a process of disintegration in the blood.

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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