Definition
• | The condition of being pure. |
• | freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. |
• | Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. |
• | Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life. |
• | Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. |
• | Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style. |