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purityn. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French purté, purité, pureté; Latin puritat-, puritas. Etymology: In α. forms < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French purté freedom from (moral) pollution (end of 12th cent.), cleanness, clarity (of water or air) (end of 14th cent.) < post-classical Latin puritat- , puritas (see below); in β. forms < Anglo-Norman and Middle French purité and Middle French pureté (French pureté , †purité ) freedom from (moral) pollution (1212 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), clarity, limpidity (1402), cleanness, quality of being physically uncontaminated (1530), (of language) state of being refined (1580), chastity (1636), freedom from foreign elements (1740), (in art) freedom from extraneous elements (1768) and its etymon post-classical Latin puritat-, puritas state of being morally or spiritually pure (Vulgate), correctness, clarity of style (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), state of being physically pure or clean (5th cent.) < classical Latin pūrus pure adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare Old Occitan purdat, purtat, puritat (13th cent. as puritat; Occitan puretat), Catalan puritat (1290), Spanish puridad (1293; earlier in sense ‘secret’ (1207 as poridad)), Portuguese puridade (13th cent. as poridade), Italian purità (c1260).Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French purté is the inherited form (compare α. forms), while Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French pureté , †purité is remodelled after post-classical Latin puritas (compare β. forms). Apparently attested earlier as a surname, although it is unclear whether this reflects currency of the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: Wulwardus le Purte (1198). society > morality > virtue > purity > [noun] society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > [noun] ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 3 Alle maȝen & ahȝen. halden an riwle anonden Purte [a1400 Pepys clennesse] of heorte. 1340 (1866) 202 (MED) Þis chastete, þis clennesse, þis purte, acseþ þet me loki þe herte uram euele þoȝtes. c1400 (?c1380) (1920) 1074 (MED) Much clener watz hir [sc. Mary's] corse, God kynned þerinne; And efte when he borne watz in Beþelen þe ryche, In wych puryte þay departed. c1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Tiber.) 22985 Whanne it is songe off good entente In clennesse and in purete. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. DDDv Whan we be gyuen..to clennesse of vertue and purite of lyfe. 1602 J. Marston i. sig. C She comes: Creations puritie, admir'd, Ador'd, amazing raritie. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. ii. 238 I could driue her then from the ward of her purity, her reputation, her marriage-vow. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton 15 No savage fierce..Will dare to soyle her virgin puritie. 1729 W. Law vii. 109 Every thing about her resembles the purity of her soul. 1768 L. Sterne I. 203 Of all women, Madame de Rambouliet is the most correct; and I never wish to see one of more virtues and purity of heart. 1816 Ld. Byron xxi. 31 'Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity. 1873 17 Apr. 10/4 Wordsworth's works created a sympathy with loftiness of character and purity of soul. 1905 W. Sanday iv. 120 The strictest ritualistic purity was required of those who took part in the feast. 1979 B. Cartland in 5 Aug. 10 People want purity. They want what the whole of my empire is based on—no sex before the wedding ring is on the girl's finger. 1995 E. Toman vi. 157 They talked about holy purity and how hard it was to live that way nowadays, wasn't Ireland out of step with everywhere else, the clergy an old-fashioned crowd of stick-in-the-muds. 2. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > [noun] the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [noun] > specifically in physical sense society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > qualities of metals > [noun] > fineness or purity tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 405 (MED) Seuen curnels of a pynappul do In oon sester of wyn that is impure..Anoon hit wol resseyue a puryte [v.r. puritee; L. puritatem]. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton (BL Add.) (1975) 1967 (MED) Al swete smyllyng thing hath more purite And is more spiritual then stynking may be. a1530 W. Bonde (1531) iii. f. CCxxviii This corruptible body shall be indued with purite & incorrupcyon. 1550 in (1890) II. 430 French crownes..of the goodnes, purety, and waight, as they be curraunt in Fraunce. 1600 B. Jonson v. iii. sig. P iii I marry sir, here's puritie; O George, I could bite off thy nose for this now. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. ii. 329 To..Sully the puritie and whitenesse of my Sheetes. View more context for this quotation 1666 Duchess of Newcastle 108 The Vehicles of those two souls being made of the purest and finest sort of air, and of a human shape; This purity and fineness was the cause that they could neither be seen nor heard. 1727 J. Thomson 74 This [bathing] is the purest Exercise of Health... Even, from the Body's Purity, the Mind..receives a secret Aid. 1832 G. R. Porter 164 To insure the absolute purity of the ingredients. 1838 H. H. Milman tr. F. Guizot in E. Gibbon I. i. 40 (note) The..were afraid that Omar, when he went to Jerusalem, charmed with the fertility of the soil and the purity of the air, would never return to Medina. 1860 J. Tyndall i. xx. 138 Snow of perfect purity. 1930 21 Mar. 394/1 A parcel of redistilled magnesium of exceptional purity. 1954 26 Mar. 6/3 There are other and more serious possibilities in relation to the..condition of rivers and the purity of water supplies. 2001 S. Walton (2002) iv. 83 Street samples of various drugs were laboratory tested to discover their level of purity, and what adulterants they had been cut with. a1475 (1889) 5 (MED) Þe purete of þe quinte essencie schal be sublymed aboue, & þe groste schal abide byneþe. c1720 M. Prior 147 The nymphs..from little urns Pour streams select, and purity of waters. the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [noun] the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > purity or freedom from flaws 1553 R. Horne tr. J. Calvin i. sig. Eiij To abolish al superstitions, that the true religion may be set in her own puritie and holines. 1563 A. Nowell in H. Ellis (1843) (Camden) 21 The purity of the Latine tongue. 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Explan. Words Solæcisme, Incongruity of speech, or defect in the purity thereof. a1684 J. Evelyn anno 1661 (1955) III. 303 Dr. Basiere..shewed that the Church of England was for purity of doctrine..the most perfect under heaven. 1700 J. Dryden Pref. sig. *B From Chaucer the Purity of the English Tongue began. 1781 S. Johnson V. Addison 26 Two books yet celebrated..for purity and elegance, and which, if they are now less read, are neglected only because..their precepts are no longer wanted. 1841 M. Elphinstone I. i. i. 35 The daughters of such connections, if they go on marrying Bramins for seven generations, restore their progeny to the original purity of the sacerdotal class. 1875 E. A. Freeman (1881) 257 The slight touch of Renaissance in some of the capitals..in no sort takes away from the general purity of the style. 1960 C. Day Lewis i. 15 I can only remember that they came to me with the purity and completeness of a vision. 1976 20 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 1/8 To this day any baby born whose racial purity is in doubt will be killed. 2005 (Nexis) 26 June d5 His dream of a new cuisine that was classical in style but almost fat-free with a purity of taste. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.?c1225 |
