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    Purity (?), n. [OE. purete, purte, OF. purté, F. pureté, from L. puritas, fr. purus pure. See Pure.] The condition of being pure. Specifically: (a) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, “the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals”. (b) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. “The purity of a linen vesture.” Holyday. (c) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, “purity of heart or of life”. (d) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. (e) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, “purity of style”.

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