Definitions for purities

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purities pu·ri·ty

Spelling: [pyoo r-i-tee]

IPA: /ˈpyʊər ɪ ti/

Purities is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in purities (eiiprstu).

Definitions for purities

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 purities

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

Examples for purities

We let puritan writers write about the purities of this ordinary man.

There are purities so intense that, like fire, they burn those who would handle them, however tenderly.

Take me out into this new white world that has been born to-day of the ten purities and the ten thousand felicities!