[ US /ˈpjʊɹəti, ˈpjʊɹɪti/ ]
[ UK /pjˈʊɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
  2. a woman's virtue or chastity
  3. being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material
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How To Use purity In A Sentence

  • In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
  • At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.
  • It is particularly by the mucilage, which is found in greater or less quantity in all vegetables, that the purity of oil is affected. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • In town me and Josh got Silver rings as part of the purity for God thing - very cool!
  • What we do need is a sense of justice that doesn't succumb to moral purity or compromise with political power (and today, that means spinmeisters more than the tyrants).
  • His life was for all, bringing everyone in his midst to purity, upliftment and divinity.
  • Gold's purity is expressed either as fineness or in karats.
  • I think you have done well in avoiding the topic altogether; but between ourselves, do you really think that the refinement of manner, the censorious, hypocritical, verbal scrupulosity, which is carried so far in this "picked age" of ours, is a true sign of superior refinement of taste, and purity of morals? Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
  • In Roman times, men standing for public office would wear white togas to signify their purity.
  • When the cast electrodes of air-melted steel are remelted under vacuum and deoxidized with carbon, the product has significantly improved purity.
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