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
Steel’s children described a man of almost unbelievable purity.
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Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
This project pushed me into some complex lessons that remain with me to this day, namely, to think simply about the ingredients and build a meal up from their purity.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Medium-full, this offers excellent varietal purity, medium weight tannins, very good acidity and subtle wood notes.
—Tom Hyland, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Iran retaliated by advancing its uranium enrichment up to 60% purity, closer to the roughly 90% level that is needed to make a bomb.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
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Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
This project pushed me into some complex lessons that remain with me to this day, namely, to think simply about the ingredients and build a meal up from their purity.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Medium-full, this offers excellent varietal purity, medium weight tannins, very good acidity and subtle wood notes.
—Tom Hyland, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Iran retaliated by advancing its uranium enrichment up to 60% purity, closer to the roughly 90% level that is needed to make a bomb.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purity
Noun
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The beginning of the finale reveals that the explosion originated in the laundry room, where Graham was trying to declare his innocence to Donnie and Crystal (Destiny Hernandez).—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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Simpson, who maintained his innocence but was found liable for the deaths in a civil case, later served nine years in prison on unrelated charges.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Good energy comes around, and putting goodness into their community is a way of looking out for your partner, too.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside Online,
8 May 2025
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But long gone are the days when Republicans and Democrats alike could rally behind one singular figure and beacon of goodness like Mister Rogers.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
2 May 2025
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The president recognized a perfect nominee for the times: a brilliant jurist who represented the best of American virtues and exhibited no vices or controversial positions on judicial issues (as had Bork three years earlier).—
Barbara A. Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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The City of God, written over the space of around 13 years, was written partly to rebut the allegation that Christianity was responsible for the collapse of an empire, that its adoption had led to a weakening of the virtues that had powered Rome to global dominance.—
Anna Rowlands,
Time,
12 May 2025
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“Purity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purity. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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