Roget's Thesaurus

#960. 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; virginibus puerisque [Lat.]; 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].