| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section IV. Moral Affections | | 4. Moral Practice |
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| 960. Purity. |
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| NOUN: | PURITY; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage [rare], virginity.
virgin, vestal, prude; Lucretia, Diana, Athena Parthenos; Joseph, Hippolytus.
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| ADJECTIVE: | PURE, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque [L.]; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - As chaste as unsunn’d snow.—Cymbeline
- A soul as white as heaven.—Beaumont and Fletcher
- The sun-clad power of Chastity.—Milton
- To the pure all things are pure.—Shelley
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