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Purity

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Noun

1. pureness, purity

being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

2. innocence, pureness, purity, sinlessness, whiteness

the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

3. honor, honour, pureness, purity

a woman's virtue or chastity

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Purity

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noun
1. 
the state or quality of being pure
2. physics
a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colours

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Purity

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noun
the quality or condition of being pure
; specif.,
a. 
freedom from adulterating matter
b. 
cleanness or clearness
c. 
freedom from evil or sin; innocence; chastity
d. 
freedom from corrupting elements
said of language, style, etc.
e. 
freedom from mixture with white; color saturation

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Purity

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n.
1. The quality or condition of being pure: the purity of the drug.
2. Freedom from spiritual or moral defilement; innocence or chastity: "Teach your children ... the belief in purity of body, mind and soul" (Emmeline Pankhurst).
3. The degree to which a color is free from being mixed with other colors.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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