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Purity
Open directlyWebster'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.