spiritual puritypuritypu‧ri‧ty /ˈpjʊərəti $ ˈpjʊr-/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] 
the purity of tap water spiritual purity → impurity
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In literature, the swan has been a symbol of purity and virtue.
- Use of the chemicals could harm the purity of dairy products.
- Dostoevsky was writing about purity, not chastity or virginity.
- I was convinced of one thing: of the purity and truth of my love for you.
- In 1970, Mr Pozsgay joined the Agitprop department - the party's watchdog on ideological purity and the media.
- In later poetry she is the embodiment of wisdom, reason, purity.
- Just a white-hot bonding with the words and feelings in the song, a raw purity that will take your breath away.
- There is a lovely sense of the purity of Elisha in the way he didn't condemn or judge.
- White also appeals due to its association with innocence and purity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY spiritual purityCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
spiritual purity· Everywhere one notices attempts to introduce greater purity, greater justice, greater perfection and a more universal explanation of things.· Her drawings reveal this gift in its greatest purity.
· People present the greatest single threat of contamination for high purity and sterile materials.· The system is completely automatic and produces high purity gases to 99.999 percent.· It includes industrial production control, analysis of high purity materials, food, human organs and biomonitoring.· It also deals with gaseous chemicals, specialised gas mixtures and high purity gases for the semiconductor industry.· Alta manufactures high purity titanium principally for use in the production of sputtering targets for the electronics industry.
· In 1970, Mr Pozsgay joined the Agitprop department - the party's watchdog on ideological purity and the media.· S.-Soviet Cold War, symbols of ideological purity turned brittle.· Their measures of success are not ideological purity but profitability within their chosen sectors.· Neither of the superpowers has had much interest in ideological purity.· The overriding priority, therefore, was to ensure that the structure of the Party should guarantee its ideological purity.· Once elected, the pressure group spokesman becomes a politician, whose business is compromise, not ideological purity.· Or it could preserve its ideological purity and risk losing the elections.· He expressed himself in favour of ideological purity, strictly in accordance with Marx, Engels, and Lenin, and for purging members who deviate.
· National fears gave a minor stimulus to arguments for racial purity.· Nobody had mentioned the myth of racial purity in your columns until Helen Bews intervened.
· And at the other extreme, the success of social purity never silenced the defenders of the double standard.· Here was a strong social basis for social purity, which could be effectively mobilised by moral entrepreneurs.· Eugenicists, social purity campaigners and imperialists felt that strict schedules and regular habits would breed character in the child.· The state-orientated approach adopted by many feminists clearly related to their affiliations with social purity.· Effectively, social purity had been politically appropriated.· But the mention of Wilde also serves to remind us that social purity never succeeded in totally silencing its opponents.
· But until that time comes, we can only keep the laws relating to spiritual purity which are unconnected with the Temple.
VERB· Grass routes Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk.· She maintained her purity through prayer and a miracle.
WORD FAMILYnounpurificationpuristpurity ≠ impuritypurifieradjectivepure ≠ impureverbpurifyadverbpurely
the quality or state of being pure: the purity of tap water spiritual purity → impurity