Definitions for Purity

Purity pu·ri·ty

Spelling: [pyoo r-i-tee]
IPA: /ˈpyʊər ɪ ti/

Purity is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in Purity (iprtuy).

Definitions for Purity

noun

  1. the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.:
  2. freedom from any admixture or modifying addition.
  3. ceremonial or ritual cleanness.
  4. freedom from guilt or evil; innocence.
  5. physical chastity; virginity.
  6. freedom from foreign or inappropriate elements; careful correctness:
  7. Optics. the chroma, saturation, or degree of freedom from white of a given color.
  8. cleanness or spotlessness, as of garments.

Origin of Purity

1175-1225; Late Latin pūritās (see pure, -ity); replacing Middle English pur(e)te Anglo-French Late Latin, as above

Examples for Purity

But it certainly has something to sell: a sense of security and a particular vision of purity.

Will it strive for purity or aim for as big a tent as possible?

The family also believed that inbreeding was central to both preserving the family fortune and ensuring “purity of blood.”

The whole door was resplendent in the purity of intense cold.

Her purity, her goodness, all that which resembled her in Nature, returned to her and saved her.

The world's notions of purity are simply childish—because it is not itself pure.

I don’t think that happened in the ‘90s and the ‘80s and I wonder if there’s a purity to that that I envy sometimes.

The purity and disinterestedness of their conduct should be made apparent.

It lay in its purity on a chair at the foot of Dirk's bed on Sabbath morning.

Wilson explained that, unlike some of the other forms of early religion, Pauline Christianity had been based on purity.

Word Value for Purity
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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