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Antonyms for pureness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pyoor
Phonetic Transcription : pyʊər

Definition of pureness

Origin :
  • c.1300 (late 12c. as a surname, and Old English had purlamb "lamb without a blemish"), "unmixed," also "absolutely, entirely," from Old French pur "pure, simple, absolute, unalloyed," figuratively "simple, sheer, mere" (12c.), from Latin purus "clean, clear; unmixed; unadorned; chaste, undefiled," from PIE root *peue- "to purify, cleanse" (cf. Latin putus "clear, pure;" Sanskrit pavate "purifies, cleanses," putah "pure;" Middle Irish ur "fresh, new;" Old High German fowen "to sift").
  • Replaced Old English hlutor. Meaning "free from moral corruption" is first recorded mid-14c. In reference to bloodlines, attested from late 15c.
  • noun purity
Example sentences :
  • The antiquity of my family and the pureness of my Castilian blood!
  • Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
  • Singleness of heart is come; pureness of heart is come; joy and gladness is come.
  • Extract from : « George Fox » by George Fox
  • And just such affirmations must be made concerning Lincoln's pureness.
  • Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; » by Clark S. Beardslee
  • And then he goes on to what he justly calls "the other great Christian virtue, Pureness."
  • Extract from : « Matthew Arnold » by G. W. E. Russell
  • It has the solidity of earth, the pureness of air, the glow of fire, and the clearness of water.
  • Extract from : « Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica » by James Boswell
  • The stillness of the evening and the pureness of the air made a silent accompaniment to Gerda's beautiful voice.
  • Extract from : « Katharine Frensham » by Beatrice Harraden
  • Still more brutalising, still more destructive of every element of pureness and kindness were the gladiatorial games.
  • Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar
  • Happy here, he's happy after: doing good he's doubly glad:Glad, exceeding happy, when he sees the pureness of his deeds.17.
  • Extract from : « The Buddha's Path of Virtue » by Frank Lee Woodward
  • Pureness is by no means an occasional or intermittent exercise of his judgment or choice.
  • Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; » by Clark S. Beardslee
  • It is the pureness and the pleasantness that have clustered there; the very walls have drunk these in.
  • Extract from : « The Optimist's Good Morning » by Florence Hobart Perin

Synonyms for pureness

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