as in innocence
the quality or state of being morally pure
struggling to live a life of purity while surrounded by wickedness
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Recent Examples of purity
Each Sports Research capsule is crafted with a vegan-friendly, gluten-free, and soy-free formula, ensuring purity without unnecessary additives.
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Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2025
All German-style beers, including The Hef, are brewed according to German beer purity laws (called Reinheitsgebot).
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
One of the Mangold film’s antagonists, folklorist and Newport overseer Alan Lomax, is seen and heard debating the idea of purity vs. commercialism in folk music.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2025
That money shifts college sports even further away from purity and closer to payola.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
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Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2025
All German-style beers, including The Hef, are brewed according to German beer purity laws (called Reinheitsgebot).
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
One of the Mangold film’s antagonists, folklorist and Newport overseer Alan Lomax, is seen and heard debating the idea of purity vs. commercialism in folk music.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2025
That money shifts college sports even further away from purity and closer to payola.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for purity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purity
Noun
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Kelsey pleaded guilty in the case but has since proclaimed his innocence.—
Vivian Jones,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Appellate courts aren’t concerned with guilt or innocence, only whether a trial followed procedural rules.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Two buttery and crunchy layers hold in all the goodness of the jammy blueberry and lemon duo.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
17 Aug. 2025
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Someone who believed in the innate goodness of people who posted comments on the internet.—
Sherry Kuehl,
Kansas City Star,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And both the book and the film offered historically nonsensical versions of the Klan as an honorable and chivalrous group fighting for social justice and the virtue of white womanhood.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
15 Aug. 2025
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That might sound sadistic; indeed, sadism is something of a Hitchcockian virtue.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Purity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purity. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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