purity

Roget-categorie 960

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.4. Moral practice

#960. Purity

zelfstandig naamwoord

purity — decency, decorum, delicacy — continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame — pudicity^†, pucelage^†, virginity.
vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus — Lucretia, Diana — prude.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous — virginibus puerisque [Lat.] — simon-pure — chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
virgin, unsullied — cherry [Coll.].

uitdrukking

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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