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Purity

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The condition of being pure. Specifically:

2. freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.

3. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday.

4. Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.

5. Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.

6. Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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