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# purity

«purity» in Mova's school dictionary: **the state of being clean and free from dirt or anything…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Purity is the state of being clean and free from dirt or anything mixed in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purity/#m1)

2) Purity is goodness and innocence, being free from wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purity/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in science a gold coin or a spring of water is tested for purity; in tales a heroine's purity means her goodness and innocence

### examples

- The water from the spring had great purity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purity/#x1)
- The gold was tested for purity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purity/#x2)
- The girl's purity made everyone trust her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purity/#x3)
- Mum likes the purity of fresh milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purity/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Do homage in purity, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way, when suddenly His wrath is kindled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «purity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.