purity

purity
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
I
n. refinement (see purity); sincerity, honesty; abstraction; simplicity. See probity, simpleness, innocence, virtue, cleanness.Ant., dishonesty.
II
Freedom from pollution
Nouns
1. purity, pureness, cleanness, etc. (see
Adjectives); refinement, purification, clarification, cleansing; defecation, depilation; filtering, filtration; sublimation, distillation; percolation, leaching, lixiviation; elutriation; strain, sieve. See cleanness.
2. refinery; cleanser, clarifier, defecator, etc.; filter, sieve, colander, strainer, screen.
Verbs — purify, make pure, free from impurity, decrassify; clear, clarify, clean, wash, cleanse; rectify; refine, purge, defecate, depurate, expurgate, sublimate; distill; strain (see cleanness).
Adjectives — pure, unadulterated, unalloyed, unmixed, unpolluted, undefiled, untainted, uncorrupted; refined; genuine, real, true, simple, perfect, clear; fine; full-blooded, thoroughbred; clean, unspoiled, unblemished, untarnished, unviolated, wholesome.
Antonyms, see impurity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The state of being pure]
Syn. pureness, cleanness, cleanliness, immaculateness, stainlessness, whiteness, clearness, untaintedness, immaculacy, unsulliedness.
2. [Innocence]
Syn. artlessness, guilelessness, blamelessness; see innocence 2 , simplicity 2 , sincerity .
3. [Chastity]
Syn. abstemiousness, continence, self-command; see chastity , virtue 1 .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being clean and free of contaminants: clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, pureness, taintlessness. See CLEAN. 2. The condition of being chaste: chastity, decency, innocence, modesty, virginity, virtue, virtuousness. See GOOD, RESTRAINT, SEX.

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