struggling to live a life of purity while surrounded by wickedness
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The experiment relies on detecting the faint interactions between hypothetical dark matter particles and atoms of liquid xenon, a noble gas chosen for its purity and stability.—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025 And yet, Lightfoot’s stubborn purity is surely why listeners recognize his sincerity in memorializing such a tragic event.—John U. Bacon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025 The purity of the classroom experience is one of the reasons people become professors in the first place.—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025 The people around me shouted with such purity of rage, such absence of self-consciousness.—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for purity
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Middle English purete, from Anglo-French purité, from Late Latin puritat-, puritas, from Latin purus pure
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