PURITY in a Sentence

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The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.

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 Meanings and Examples of PURITY
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purity
 n.  condition of being pure; freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; cleanness
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Ah, so it's Ashley, and not you, who has fought the fight for purity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  Against the dull chocolate-coloured background of the restaurant, the purity of her head stood out as it had never done in the most brightly-lit ball-room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3  There's Reverend Zitterel; Sister Bogart about half runs his church, so of course he'll take her say-so; and Ezra Stowbody, as a banker he has to be all hell for morality and purity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  She tried to have him appointed to the postmastership, which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  outline and purity of water it is fully their equal; and in.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
6  But, in the milder moments of their plaint, these emblems of purity and sweetness were cast back to their places, with every sign of tenderness and regret.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
7  St. Clare's mother had been a woman of uncommon elevation and purity of character, and he gave to his child his mother's name, fondly fancying that she would prove a reproduction of her image.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth's passionate purity.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  Grace was his, and the white purity of boyhood, and beauty such as old Greek marbles kept for us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  He recalled the stainless purity of his boyish life, and it seemed horrible to him that it was here the fatal portrait was to be hidden away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  There was something in the purity of his face that rebuked them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
13  Yours seem to lose all sense of honour, of goodness, of purity.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
14  There was something in the purity and refinement of that sad face that seemed to enrage him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
15  These salons did not long preserve their purity.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
Example Sentence:
1  They fear the blue, which, in mythology, is the color of purity and holiness.
2  We can feel you, and your spirit - with will and energy, and virtue and purity.
3  White has always been a symbol of purity in Western cultures.
4  The sample's density is a measure of its purity.
5  The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.