Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 6 compound words that contain purity. The most common are listed below. Open purity in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- purity ringA ring representing a religious vow to abstain from sexual intercourse until marriage.
- purity testAn informal survey that assesses the participant's supposed degree of innocence in worldly matters, such as sex, drugs, and deceit.
- purity spiralThe situation in which members of an ideological group become increasingly zealous and intolerant, eventually turning on other members.
- purity ballA formal dance event attended by fathers and their teenage daughters to promote virginity until marriage; mostly among conservative Christian groups in the United States.
- purity pledgeSynonym of virginity pledge: A pledge, made by a young adult, to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage.
- purity ringsplural of purity ring: A ring representing a religious vow to abstain from sexual intercourse until marriage.
- racial puritySynonym of racial hygiene: An approach to eugenics in Nazi ideology which sought to prevent the supposed contamination of races deemed to be superior from miscegenation.
- purity testsplural of purity test: An informal survey that assesses the participant's supposed degree of innocence in worldly matters, such as sex, drugs, and deceit.
- purity pledgesplural of purity pledge: A pledge, made by a young adult, to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage.
- purity spiralsplural of purity spiral: The situation in which members of an ideological group become increasingly zealous and intolerant, eventually turning on other members.
Compound words 6
- puritanA puritanical person.
- enantiopurityThe condition of being enantiopure
- nonpurityAbsence of purity; impurity.
- stereopurityThe condition of being stereopure
- radiopurityradiochemical purity
- ultrapurityThe quality of being ultrapure.