noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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great
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Everywhere one notices attempts to introduce greater purity , greater justice, greater perfection and a more universal explanation of things.
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Her drawings reveal this gift in its greatest purity .
high
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People present the greatest single threat of contamination for high purity and sterile materials.
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The system is completely automatic and produces high purity gases to 99.999 percent.
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It includes industrial production control, analysis of high purity materials, food, human organs and biomonitoring.
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It also deals with gaseous chemicals, specialised gas mixtures and high purity gases for the semiconductor industry.
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Alta manufactures high purity titanium principally for use in the production of sputtering targets for the electronics industry.
ideological
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In 1970, Mr Pozsgay joined the Agitprop department - the party's watchdog on ideological purity and the media.
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S.-Soviet Cold War, symbols of ideological purity turned brittle.
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Their measures of success are not ideological purity but profitability within their chosen sectors.
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Neither of the superpowers has had much interest in ideological purity .
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The overriding priority, therefore, was to ensure that the structure of the Party should guarantee its ideological purity .
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Once elected, the pressure group spokesman becomes a politician, whose business is compromise, not ideological purity .
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Or it could preserve its ideological purity and risk losing the elections.
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He expressed himself in favour of ideological purity , strictly in accordance with Marx, Engels, and Lenin, and for purging members who deviate.
racial
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National fears gave a minor stimulus to arguments for racial purity .
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Nobody had mentioned the myth of racial purity in your columns until Helen Bews intervened.
social
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And at the other extreme, the success of social purity never silenced the defenders of the double standard.
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Here was a strong social basis for social purity , which could be effectively mobilised by moral entrepreneurs.
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Eugenicists, social purity campaigners and imperialists felt that strict schedules and regular habits would breed character in the child.
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The state-orientated approach adopted by many feminists clearly related to their affiliations with social purity .
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Effectively, social purity had been politically appropriated.
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But the mention of Wilde also serves to remind us that social purity never succeeded in totally silencing its opponents.
spiritual
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But until that time comes, we can only keep the laws relating to spiritual purity which are unconnected with the Temple.
■ VERB
maintain
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Grass routes Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk.
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She maintained her purity through prayer and a miracle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In literature, the swan has been a symbol of purity and virtue.
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Use of the chemicals could harm the purity of dairy products.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dostoevsky was writing about purity , not chastity or virginity.
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I was convinced of one thing: of the purity and truth of my love for you.
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In 1970, Mr Pozsgay joined the Agitprop department - the party's watchdog on ideological purity and the media.
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In later poetry she is the embodiment of wisdom, reason, purity .
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Just a white-hot bonding with the words and feelings in the song, a raw purity that will take your breath away.
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There is a lovely sense of the purity of Elisha in the way he didn't condemn or judge.
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White also appeals due to its association with innocence and purity .