purity
Roget category 960
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.4. Moral practice
#960.
Purity
noun
purity —
decency,
decorum,
delicacy —
continence,
chastity,
honesty,
virtue,
modesty,
shame —
pudicity†,
pucelage†,
virginity.
vestal,
virgin,
Joseph,
Hippolytus —
Lucretia,
Diana —
prude.
adjective
pure,
undefiled,
modest,
delicate,
decent,
decorous —
virginibus puerisque [Lat.] —
simon-pure —
chaste,
continent,
virtuous,
honest,
Platonic.
virgin,
unsullied —
cherry [Coll.].
phrase
as chaste as unsunn'd snow"
[Cymbeline];
a soul as white as heaven"
[Beaumont and Fletcher];
'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity"
[Milton];
to the pure all things are pure"
[Shelley].
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