PU'RITY, n. [L. puritas, form purus.] 1. Freedom from foreign admixture or heterogeneous matter; as the purity of water, of wine, of spirit; the purity of drugs; the purity of metals.2. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt; as the purity of a garment. The purity of a linen vesture.3. Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; as purity of heart or life.4. Chastity; freedom from contamination by illicit sexual connection.5. Freedom from any sinister or improper views; as the purity of motives or designs.6. Freedom from foreign idioms, from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as purity of style or language.
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