Purity
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Purity - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
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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- PurificationEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
- PurifyEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
- Pure; Purely; PurityInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- PurificationInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- PurityInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- PurificationSmith’s Bible Dictionary
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Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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