Synonyms for purest


Grammar : Adj
Spell : pyoor
Phonetic Transcription : pyʊər

Top 10 synonyms for purest Other synonyms for the word purest

Définition of purest

Origin :
  • c.1300 (late 12c. as a surname, and Old English had purlamb "lamb without a blemish"), "unmixed," also "absolutely, entirely," from Old French pur "pure, simple, absolute, unalloyed," figuratively "simple, sheer, mere" (12c.), from Latin purus "clean, clear; unmixed; unadorned; chaste, undefiled," from PIE root *peue- "to purify, cleanse" (cf. Latin putus "clear, pure;" Sanskrit pavate "purifies, cleanses," putah "pure;" Middle Irish ur "fresh, new;" Old High German fowen "to sift").
  • Replaced Old English hlutor. Meaning "free from moral corruption" is first recorded mid-14c. In reference to bloodlines, attested from late 15c.
  • adj unmixed, genuine
  • adj clean, uncontaminated
  • adj virginal, chaste
  • adj absolute, utter
  • adj theoretical
Example sentences :
  • But the purest and best matrons of Greece refuse to be my guests.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • They were sick-and so were the purest of their brethren—with the plague of sin.
  • Extract from : « The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Faith, in such circumstances, must be of the purest, and may be of the strongest.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • To him indeed they all seemed to glow with the purest Christianity.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • It was democracy, rather than "representative" government, under its purest aspect.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • They were constructed of ivory and jet, and their capitals were overlaid with the purest gold.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • Here then is the divine source of the sweetest and purest joy.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • But poetry and art may also be the expression of the highest truth and the purest sentiment.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • There is hope in the thought, and confidence and the purest inspiration.
  • Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
  • The highest love is the love not of a person, but of the highest and purest abstraction.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato

Antonyms for purest

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