- (n.) Freedom from foreign idioms or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.
- (n.) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.
- (n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.
- (n.) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.
- (n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.
- (n.) The condition of being pure.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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