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[pyoor-i-tee]

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noun

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.

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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.

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Origin:
1175–1225; < Late Latin pūritās (see pure, -ity); replacing Middle English pur(e)te < Anglo-French < Late Latin, as above

Related forms

hy·per·pur·i·ty, noun

su·per·pu·ri·ty, noun

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Example Sentences

Young people are increasingly demonstrating a vow of abstinence with purity rings.

Greater purity means that heroin does not have to be injected to produce a high, but can be smoked or sniffed.

First, that white racial purity was always a myth, even ignoring the ancient migrations that tie us all together as a species.

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Young people are increasingly demonstrating a vow of abstinence with purity rings.

Greater purity means that heroin does not have to be injected to produce a high, but can be smoked or sniffed.

First, that white racial purity was always a myth, even ignoring the ancient migrations that tie us all together as a species.

If purity is desirable eliminate the money and fame.

They are two symbiotic things that when they work together, the purity of truth comes out to all who will listen.

So far, researchers can only find that kind of purity in a closed, proprietary network.

TO protect the purity of drinking water, water companies usually try to keep the public off the land around their reservoirs.

Then he polished them so that the purity and grace of nature's handiwork could shine through.

The lotus is venerated because of its exceptional purity.

The length and straightness of the chains and the purity of the plastic determines how strong it.

Add the word organic, and the purity of milk's image only increases.

It all depends on the purity of the individual soldier.

To engineers, a graphic on a screen is pointless and detracts from the purity of science.

Nichols simply went on doing what she has always done, which is dance with sublime and un-self-conscious purity and grace.

For the average man, jade represented excellence and purity.

The crystals' transmission purity would also eliminate waste heat generated by traditional electron-based circuits.

Brooks's bill to secure to primary elections the pristine purity of the country town meeting.

Scientists remain baffled as to how iron of such purity could be cast at that time, let alone refuse to rust.

Those who held a self-image of cleanliness and purity made more harsh moral judgements on social issues.

Bermuda is known for the gin-clear purity of its waters and for its vast array of coral reefs.

It results in pollution of surrounding rivers, lakes and oceans, and it can affect aquifers and the purity of drinking water.

But the emphasis on purity can mean fewer patients.

As his playing of the kora and two other instruments made clear, he is an artist of great purity.

When they were interred here, they must have appeared as symbols of purity amongst the decay.

Both see in gold a purity that transcends the machinations of the merely mortal.

Beauty for him was purity, a purity which might realize itself in noble action.

Support either by advertisers or government has almost invariably tainted the purity of the goods delivered.

In these royal characters and aching long lines her seriousness and purity found their ideal object.

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purity (ˈpjʊərɪtɪ)

—n
1.	the state or quality of being pure
2.	physics a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colours

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Word Origin & History

purity

early 13c., from O.Fr. purete, earlier purte (12c.), from L.L. puritatem (nom. puritas) "cleanness, pureness," from L. purus (see pure).

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"Do not be discouraged, if in a thousand instances you find your kindness rejected and wronged, your good evil-spoken of, and the hand you extend for the relief of others, cast insultingly away; the benevolence which cannot outlive these trials of its purity and strength, is not like the self-sacrifice of him, who went about doing good."

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