Definition of Purity

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Purity

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.

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Purity Quotations

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mohandas Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mohandas Gandhi

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mohandas Gandhi

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mohandas Gandhi

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
James Madison

Purity Translations

purity in Dutch is helderheid, kuisheid, zindelijkheid
purity in German is Reinheit
purity in Latin is sanctimonia
purity in Spanish is pureza, limpieza
purity in Swedish is renhet

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