Difference between revisions of "Purity"
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[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] purete, from Anglo-French purité, from Late Latin puritat-, puritas, from Latin purus pure | [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] purete, from Anglo-French purité, from Late Latin puritat-, puritas, from Latin purus pure | ||
*Date: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] | *Date: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] | ||
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==Definition== | ==Definition== | ||
*1 : the quality or state of being '''pure''' | *1 : the quality or state of being '''pure''' | ||
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Middle [[English]] pur, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] purus; akin to Old High German fowen to sift, [[Sanskrit]] punāti he cleanses, Middle Irish úr fresh, new | Middle [[English]] pur, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] purus; akin to Old High German fowen to sift, [[Sanskrit]] punāti he cleanses, Middle Irish úr fresh, new | ||
*Date: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century] | *Date: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century] | ||
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===Definitions=== | ===Definitions=== | ||
*1 a (1) : unmixed with any other [[matter]] <pure gold> (2) : free from dust, dirt, or taint <pure springwater> (3) : spotless, stainless | *1 a (1) : unmixed with any other [[matter]] <pure gold> (2) : free from dust, dirt, or taint <pure springwater> (3) : spotless, stainless |
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Etymology
Middle English purete, from Anglo-French purité, from Late Latin puritat-, puritas, from Latin purus pure
- Date: 13th Century
Definition
- 1 : the quality or state of being pure
Pure
Etymology
Middle English pur, from Anglo-French, from Latin purus; akin to Old High German fowen to sift, Sanskrit punāti he cleanses, Middle Irish úr fresh, new
- Date: 14th century
Definitions
- 1 a (1) : unmixed with any other matter <pure gold> (2) : free from dust, dirt, or taint <pure springwater> (3) : spotless, stainless
- b : free from harshness or roughness and being in tune —used of a musical tone c of a vowel : characterized by no appreciable alteration of articulation during utterance
- 2 a : being thus and no other : sheer, unmitigated <pure folly>
- b (1) : abstract, theoretical <pure research> (2) : a priori <pure mechanics>
- c : not directed toward exposition of reality or solution of practical problems <pure literature>
- d : being nonobjective and to be appraised on formal and technical qualities only <pure form>
- 3 a (1) : free from what vitiates, weakens, or pollutes (2) : containing nothing that does not properly belong
- b : free from moral fault or guilt
- c : marked by chastity : continent
- d (1) : of pure blood and unmixed ancestry (2) : homozygous in and breeding true for one or more characters
- e : ritually clean
- 4 : having exactly the talents or skills needed for a particular role <a pure shooter in basketball>