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
Specialized saws then slice this pillar of semiconducting purity into wafers less than 1 millimeter thick.
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IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
The pee is then examined for clarity, which is supposed to indicate purity.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 19 Sep. 2025
But Anderson also knows that the moral purity of revolutionaries gets boring pretty fast.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
Now led by the second and third generation of the Jones family—Pete’s son Bruce, nephew Jeff, and grandson Sam—there’s a minimalist purity to the offering.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
The pee is then examined for clarity, which is supposed to indicate purity.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 19 Sep. 2025
But Anderson also knows that the moral purity of revolutionaries gets boring pretty fast.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
Now led by the second and third generation of the Jones family—Pete’s son Bruce, nephew Jeff, and grandson Sam—there’s a minimalist purity to the offering.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for purity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purity
Noun
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Watching your character confront Giuliano and attempt to profess her innocence once again was intense.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Comey declared his innocence in a social media post and welcomed a trial.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There are few people in human history whose last names alone are sufficient to conjure up kindness, goodness, wisdom, grace—Mandela, Gandhi, King, Lincoln.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Any starchy side to soak up all the goodness!—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Growing longer, healthier hair takes a lot of patience—a virtue that clashes with social media’s instant gratification itch.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
2 Oct. 2025
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In his mind, the army was not a caste apart but an instrument of the republic – an arena in which self-command and civic virtue were tested.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Purity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purity. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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