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Purity
//ˈpjʊəɹɪti// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name from English from the virtue purity.
Noun
- 1 The state or degree of being pure. countable, uncountable
"The purity of the water was tested in a laboratory."
- 2 a woman's virtue or chastity wordnet
- 3 the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil wordnet
- 4 being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material wordnet
Etymology
From pure + -ity, from Old French purete, from Latin puritas.
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