PURE, PURITY
ADJECTIVES
► CANDID pure, clear; stainless, innocent → 1647 arch.
► CASTICAL making chaste, pure or continent → 1656 obs.
► HARD DOWN real, true; pure, unadulterated → 1938 Amer. dial.
► IMMIXED ► IMMIXT not mixed, unmingled, pure, simple → 1622 obs.
► LEAL of a woman: chaste, pure, unsullied → 1745 Sc.
► LUTTER pure → 971 obs.
► NET pure, unadulterated, unmixed → 1713
► P pure, unadulterated, esp. of drugs → 1970s sl.
► QUINTESSENTIAL of the purest or most refined of its kind → 1605
► SKERE pure, purified; cleansed or free from sin or guilt → a1225 obs.
► UNACCURSED ► UNACCURST pure, undefiled, uncorrupted → a1674
► UNDEFOILED pure, undefiled, uncorrupted → a1325 obs.
► UNDEFOULED pure, undefiled, uncorrupted → a1300 obs.
► WHITE morally or spiritually pure; spotless, innocent → c1175
► WHITE-SOULED morally or spiritually pure → 1789
► WHITER THAN WHITE morally pure; having an untarnished reputation → 1658
► YFAIRED made clean or pure → 1340 obs.
NOUNS
► CANDIDNESS purity, innocence → 1654 obs.
► CANDOUR stainlessness of character; purity, integrity, innocence → 1610 obs.
► CASTIMONY chastity, purity → 1490 obs.
► IMMIXTURE the condition of being unmixed; freedom from mixture; purity, simplicity → 1648 obs.
► MERACITY purity, unmixed condition → 1656 obs.
► MERENESS purity → 1648 obs.
► SINCERITY freedom from falsification, adulteration, or alloy; purity, correctness → 1546 obs.
► THE PURE QUILL something that is pure, genuine, of the highest quality → 1884 Amer. dial.
► THE PURE QUILL WITH A BEAD ON IT something that is pure, genuine, of the highest quality → 1916 Amer. dial.
► UNDEFOULINGNESS purity → c1400 obs.
VERBS
► POLLUTE to make morally impure; to violate the purity or sanctity of; to profane or desecrate; to corrupt, to sully → 1382