Definition of purity

• n. - The condition of being pure.
• n. - freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.
• n. - Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.
• n. - Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.
• n. - Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.
• n. - Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.