Category:Purity

Pu"ri*ty, n. Etym: [oe. purete, purte, of. purté, f. pureté, from l. Puritas, fr. purus pure. See pure.]

Defn: the condition of being pure. Specifically: (a) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the Purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. (b) cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "the purity of a linen Vesture." Holyday. (c) freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; As, purity of heart or of life. (d) freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. (e) freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words Or phrases; as, purity of style.