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Search phrase: purity

Plays

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As You Like ItAYL V.ii.93All purity, all trial, all observance;All puritie, all triall, all obseruance:
King JohnKJ IV.iii.53Shall give a holiness, a purity,Shall giue a holinesse, a puritie,
The Merry Wives of WindsorMW II.ii.238ward of her purity, her reputation, her marriage-vow,ward of her purity, her reputation, her marriage-vow,
Much Ado About NothingMA IV.i.102Thou pure impiety and impious purity!Thou pure impiety, and impious puritie,
Timon of AthensTim IV.iii.14In purity of manhood stand upright,In puritie of Manhood stand vpright
Troilus and CressidaTC III.ii.165Of such a winnowed purity in love – Of such a winnowed puriritie in loue:
Troilus and CressidaTC IV.iv.23Cressid, I love thee in so strained a purityCressid: I loue thee in so strange a puritie;
The Winter's TaleWT I.ii.327The purity and whiteness of my sheets – the puritie and whitenesse of my Sheetes
The Winter's TaleWT IV.iv.380.1The purity of his.The puritie of his.

Poems

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The Passionate PilgrimPP.2.8 Wooing his purity with her fair pride. Wooing his purity with her faire pride.
The Rape of LucreceLuc.780 The life of purity, the supreme fair, The life of puritie, the supreme faire,
SonnetsSonn.144.8 Wooing his purity with her foul pride. Wooing his purity with her fowle pride.

Glossary

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virtuechastity, sexual purity

Thesaurus

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purity, sexualvirtue
sexual purityvirtue

Themes and Topics

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Plants...ually lilium candidum associated with purity freshness whiteness described as ‘swe...

Words Families

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
PURITYBASICsee PURE

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