Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section IV. Moral Affections
4. Moral Practice

960. Purity.

   NOUN:PURITY; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage [rare], virginity.
  virgin, vestal, prude; Lucretia, Diana, Athena Parthenos; Joseph, Hippolytus.
   ADJECTIVE:PURE, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque [L.]; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. As chaste as unsunn’d snow.—Cymbeline
2. A soul as white as heaven.—Beaumont and Fletcher
3. The sun-clad power of Chastity.—Milton
4. To the pure all things are pure.—Shelley