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
Look for United States Pharmacopeia (USP) or NSF seals to ensure purity and quality.
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Perri Ormont Blumberg, Time, 5 June 2025
The base spirit undergoes three distillation cycles to achieve purity and refinement.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Fine black hair and dark skin indicate strength of character along with purity and goodness.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Iran now enriches uranium up to 60% purity — a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
—Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025
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Perri Ormont Blumberg, Time, 5 June 2025
The base spirit undergoes three distillation cycles to achieve purity and refinement.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Fine black hair and dark skin indicate strength of character along with purity and goodness.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Iran now enriches uranium up to 60% purity — a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
—Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purity
Noun
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Many of those charged protest their innocence vehemently, but since anti-doping agencies apply strict liability principles and apportion responsibility irrespective of intent, the consequences hit hard.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Foxx’s office later withdrew opposition to their certificates of innocence, enabling their lawyers to use these certificates as evidence in lawsuits against the police.—
Paul Vallas,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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Many of the grants fund cost-effective and life-saving information access efforts that educate ordinary North Koreans on the goodness of the U.S. and the truth about the outside world.—
Olivia Enos,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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With all of these dirty dishes, thank goodness for the convenience of dishwashers.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 June 2025
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In the modern workforce, consensus is treated as a virtue.—
John Spencer-Taylor,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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As nature literature proliferated, the nature fakers debate—over anthropomorphism in fiction and nature writing—considered how the natural world should be portrayed in literature: should writers impose human qualities and virtues onto animals?—
Jessica George,
JSTOR Daily,
25 June 2025
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“Purity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purity. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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