(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.
