Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Purity

Nouns
  • purity
  • decency, decorum, delicacy
  • continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame
  • pudicity, pucelage, virginity. vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus
  • Lucretia, Diana
  • prude.
Adjectives
  • pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous
  • simon-pure
  • chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic. virgin, unsullied
  • cherry [Coll.].
Phrases
  • as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]
  • a soul as white as heaven" [Beaumont and Fletcher]
  • 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity" [Milton]
  • to the pure all things are pure" [Shelley].