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pu·ri·ty P0669300 (pyo͝or′ĭ-tē)n.1. The quality or condition of being pure: the purity of the drug.2. Freedom from spiritual or moral defilement; innocence or chastity: "Teach your children ... the belief in purity of body, mind and soul" (Emmeline Pankhurst).3. The degree to which a color is free from being mixed with other colors.purity (ˈpjʊərɪtɪ) n1. the state or quality of being pure2. (Colours) physics a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colours3. (General Physics) physics a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colourspu•ri•ty (ˈpyʊər ɪ ti) n. 1. the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that contaminates, pollutes, etc. 2. freedom from any admixture or modifying addition. 3. cleanness. 4. freedom from guilt or evil; innocence. 5. freedom from foreign or inappropriate elements; careful correctness: purity of expression. 6. the chroma, saturation, or degree of freedom from white of a given color. Purity See Also: VIRTUE - Incapable of taint as gold of rust —Aeschylus
- Pure and white as Rainier’s snows —Slogan, Mills flour
- Pure as a salamander in the flames or wool among the brambles —Miguel de Cervantes
- (I’m as) pure as driven slush —Tallulah Bankhead
- Pure as snow —William Shakespeare
- (I had grown) pure as the dawn and the dew —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Pure as the mountain air —Slogan, D. L. Clark candy
- Pure as the sun —Stephen Vincent Benet
- Pure in thought as angels —Samuel Rogers
- She was as pure as snow and she drifted —Anon blurb for book, New York Times Book Review, November 2, 1986
- Unblemished as the cloudless sky —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Untouched as a nun —Wallace Stegner
A variation on the same theme: “Pure as a nun” from Margaret Drabble’s novel, The Waterfall ThesaurusNoun | 1. | purity - being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous materialpurenesscondition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"plainness - the state of being unmixed with other material; "the plainness of vanilla ice cream"impureness, impurity - the condition of being impure | | 2. | purity - the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evilsinlessness, whiteness, innocence, purenesscondition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"cleanness - without moral defects | | 3. | purity - a woman's virtue or chastitypureness, honor, honoursexual morality, chastity, virtue - morality with respect to sexual relations |
puritynoun1. cleanness, clarity, cleanliness, brilliance, genuineness, wholesomeness, fineness, clearness, pureness, faultlessness, immaculateness, untaintedness the purity of the air in your working environment cleanness contamination, impurity, cloudiness2. innocence, virtue, integrity, honesty, decency, sincerity, virginity, piety, chastity, rectitude, guilelessness, virtuousness, chasteness, blamelessness The American Female Reform Society promoted sexual purity. innocence impurity, immorality, vice, wickedness, immodesty, unchastenesspuritynoun1. The condition of being clean and free of contaminants:clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, pureness, taintlessness.2. The condition of being chaste:chastity, decency, innocence, modesty, virginity, virtue, virtuousness.Translationspure (ˈpjuə) adjective1. not mixed with anything especially dirty or less valuable. pure gold. 純粹的 纯粹的2. clean, especially morally. pure thoughts. 純潔的 纯洁的3. complete; absolute. a pure accident. 完全的,十足的 完全的,十足的 4. (of sounds) clear; keeping in tune. She sang in a high pure tone. 清亮的 清亮的ˈpurely adverb 純粹地 纯粹地ˈpureness noun 純粹 纯粹ˈpurity noun 純凈 纯净ˈpurify (-fai) verb to make pure. What is the best way to purify the air? 使純淨 使洁净ˌpurifiˈcation (-fi-) noun 淨化 净化ˌpure-ˈblooded adjective of unmixed race. a pure-blooded Englishman. 純血統的 纯血统的ˌpure-ˈbred adjective (of animals) of unmixed breed; thoroughbred. a pure-bred Arab horse. 純種的 纯种的pure and simple (used after a noun) nothing but. It was an accident pure and simple. 完完全全的 完完全全的
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Purity: see Pearl, ThePearl, The, one of four Middle English alliterative poems, all contained in a manuscript of c.1400, composed in the West Midland dialect, almost certainly by the same anonymous author, who flourished c.1370–1390. ..... Click the link for more information. .purity[′pyu̇r·əd·ē] (chemistry) The degree to which the content of impurity can be detected by an analytical procedure in a sample of matter that is classified as a pure substance; the grade of purity is in inverse proportion to the amount of impurity present. Also known as chemical purity. (optics) The degree to which a primary color is pure and not mixed with the other two primary colors. PuritySee also Modesty.almondsymbol of the Virgin Mary’s innocence. [O.T.: Numbers 17: 1–11; Art: Hall, 14]crystalits transparency symbolizes pureness. [Folklore: Jobes, 391]Galahad, Sirsole knight who could sit in siege perilous. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur; Idylls of the King]Ivorysoap 99.44% pure. [Trademarks: Crowley Trade, 289]Karamazov, Alyoshapure at heart, with compassion for his erring and tortured family. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov]lilyemblematic of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [Christian Symbol-ism: Appleton, 39]long unbound haircustom for unmarried women, virgin saints, brides. [Art: Hall, 144]sedgeused as symbol of purity in da Vinci paintings. [Plant Symbolism: Embolden, 25]snow“pure as the driven snow.” [Western Folklore: Misc.]Star of Bethlehemindicates pureness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 183]Virgin Maryimmaculately conceived; mother of Jesus Christ. [N.T.: Matthew 1:18–25; 12:46–50; Luke 1:26–56; 11:27–28; John 2; 19:25–27]waterarchetypal symbol. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 109]water-lilysymbol of innocence of heart; flower of July. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178; Kunz, 329]whitesymbol of virginity; in American flag, purity. [Color Symbolism: Leach, 242]purity Physics a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colours purity
pur·i·ty (pyūr'i-tē), The state of being pure, free from contaminants or pollutants. [L. puritas, fr. purus, clean, undefiled] purity NIHspeak The relative absence of extraneous matter in a drug or vaccine that may or may not be harmful to the recipient or deleterious to the productsaturation Attribute of a visual sensation, which permits a judgment to be made of the proportion of pure chromatic colour in the total sensation. Note: This attribute is the psychosensorial correlate, or nearly so, of the colorimetric quantity purity (CIE).pur·i·ty (pyūri-tē) The state of being pure, free from contaminants or pollutants. [L. puritas, fr. purus, clean, undefiled]purity Related to purity: philosophySynonyms for puritynoun cleannessSynonyms- cleanness
- clarity
- cleanliness
- brilliance
- genuineness
- wholesomeness
- fineness
- clearness
- pureness
- faultlessness
- immaculateness
- untaintedness
Antonyms- contamination
- impurity
- cloudiness
noun innocenceSynonyms- innocence
- virtue
- integrity
- honesty
- decency
- sincerity
- virginity
- piety
- chastity
- rectitude
- guilelessness
- virtuousness
- chasteness
- blamelessness
Antonyms- impurity
- immorality
- vice
- wickedness
- immodesty
- unchasteness
Synonyms for puritynoun the condition of being clean and free of contaminantsSynonyms- clarity
- cleanliness
- cleanness
- pureness
- taintlessness
noun the condition of being chasteSynonyms- chastity
- decency
- innocence
- modesty
- virginity
- virtue
- virtuousness
Synonyms for puritynoun being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous materialSynonymsRelated WordsAntonymsnoun the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrongSynonyms- sinlessness
- whiteness
- innocence
- pureness
Related Wordsnoun a woman's virtue or chastitySynonymsRelated Words- sexual morality
- chastity
- virtue
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