purity
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈpjʊrɪti/
- Formal
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castidad
- The community valued her purity and honored her commitment to remain chaste until marriage.
- sexual purity
- purity of women
- restore purity
At first, he says in your sex life, preserve purity as far as you can.
- At first, he says in your sex life, preserve purity as far as you can.
- So I was kind of at the height of my purity and there were some still doing these things.
- And then it went through the Southern Baptist with, with all the, the, the purity events and rings and all of that marketing stuff.
- Her purity is what makes everything good in the movie.
Examples
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My purity of soul...
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His poem celebrated the purity of her heart and spirit, capturing her innocence beautifully.
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Her purity is what makes everything good in the movie.
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At first, he says in your sex life, preserve purity as far as you can.
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A symbol of her virgin purity.
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I will not give myself to a man; it is beyond reason and the purity I associate with womanhood.
Fiction book (1993) -
They see an innocent young girl and they just want to, prey on her purity.
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There's a purity to beautiful things that I've never been able to find in another human being.
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In her untouched purity, she embodies for him the dream of an unattainable world of beauty.
Fiction book (1994) -
She wore a white dress to symbolize her purity on her wedding day.
Synonyms
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9.9
A woman's reputation for sexual purity in older times
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3.6
Being free from doing wrong or evil things
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8.1
A state in which a person does not have sex, often for religious or moral reasons
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4.4
Sexual purity that some people expect for moral reasons
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5.9
A woman's not having sex before marriage
A gentle, modest, and innocent way of acting or looking like a young woman
The state of having honest thoughts and actions
Being free from wrong and having an innocent heart
A condition of being very clean and unchanged from its original form
Antonyms
How Chaste
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Purity comes from the Latin purus 'clean', like the word pure, and people used 'clean' as a way to talk about innocence. That's why purity can mean being morally or sexually innocent.