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Purity   /pjˈʊrəti/  /pjˈʊrɪti/   Listen
Purity

noun
1.
Being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material.  Synonym: pureness.  Antonym: impurity.
2.
The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil.  Synonyms: innocence, pureness, sinlessness, whiteness.
3.
A woman's virtue or chastity.  Synonyms: honor, honour, pureness.






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"Purity" Quotes from Famous Books



... Arthur Judson Brown, an authority who can scarcely be accused by his bitterest critics of unfriendliness to Japan. "Here were no criminal types, no baser elements of the population, but men of the highest standing, long and intimately known to the missionaries as Koreans of faith and purity of life, and conspicuous for their good influence over the people. Two were Congregationalists, six Methodists and eighty-nine Presbyterians. Of the Presbyterians, five were pastors of churches, eight were elders, eight deacons, ten leaders of ...
— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie

... still, and the formation of an intercourse which renewed that past, and brought a little tingling of agreeable excitement into life when it had fallen to too low an ebb to be agreeable in itself? He would not say a word of all this to Lucy. Her purity, her simplicity, even her want of imagination and experience, her incapacity to understand that debatable land between vice and virtue in which so many men find little harm, and which so many women regard ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant

... the two boys. They were educated in the same neighbourhood, but had no knowledge of their consanguinity. And as for the wife of Eustacius, she preserved her purity, and suffered not the infamous usage which she had to fear. After some ...
— Mediaeval Tales • Various

... their staff is a palm branch. They are not borne by men of honour, but by their slaves. The sultan had six borne before him; each of the governors had two. They also dress in white tobes and trousers, as an emblem of their purity in faith and intention. The most useful personage in the army, and as brave as any of them, was an old female slave of the sultan's, a native of Zamfra, five of whose former governors, she said, she had nursed. She was of a dark copper colour, in dress and countenance very much like ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

... 12th of December I wrote home: "The weather is frightfully hot; the ledger almost scorches my hands as I turn over the leaves." Then again, on the 23rd, I wrote that "the heat has risen to 105 deg., and even 110 deg., in the shade; yet, in consequence of the dryness and purity of the atmosphere, I bear it easily, and ...
— A Boy's Voyage Round the World • The Son of Samuel Smiles


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