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Latin
Etymology
From pūrus + -tās. Attested from the 3rd century CE.
Noun
pūritās f (genitive pūritātis); third declension (Late Latin)
- freedom from pollution, purity
- Synonyms: munditia, pūritia
- (metonymically) moral purity (freedom from mental or spiritual corruption, from sin)
per animī nitōrem ac vītae pūritātem- through the shining dignity of their soul and the purity of their life
- chastity, innocence
- honesty, openness
- Synonyms: pudīcitia, castitās, innocentia, simplicitās, sincēritās
- (rhetoric) correctness and elegance of speech
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “puritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- puritas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- puritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- purity of style: integritas, sinceritas orationis (not puritas)