purity

It was the era of “Urban Cowboy” and purity was being policed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Once refined to improve its purity, the extracted gold is used to make jewellery for the Royal Mint's "886" brand, which refers to the date the institution was founded.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

These include its “language of righteousness, of piety, of guilt, of sin,” along with “orthodoxies, credos, purity tests and jargon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"They presented everything as research backed with claims of 99% purity - it was all a lie."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Nancy exuded a purity rarely found among the church girls.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

But there are heroes, too, who remind us of our own potential for villainy, impure mirrors who reflect back at us the false purities we hide.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2018

And Gorky was far from alone in his scorn, as painting raced toward the purities of Abstract Expressionism.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015

As soon as you start to demand metals at higher purities then the costs soar.

From Forbes ● Aug. 19, 2013

But seabed explorers have found purities of 10 percent and higher — turning the obscure deposits into potential bonanzas.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2012

All things they know, whose wisdom seemed obscure; They, sometime blamed, Hold our best purities as things impure: Their star-glance downward aimed, Makes our most lamp-like deeds grow pale and shamed.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 by Robert Chambers