pure blood
Untainted family line
Pure blood refers to ancestry considered unmixed or untainted—lineage from a single ethnic, racial, or social group without intermarriage with outsiders.
The term appears in animal breeding for pedigreed stock, but applied to humans it carries troubling connotations of racial supremacy and eugenics.
In the Harry Potter series, pure-blood wizards claim descent from exclusively magical families, a deliberate parallel to real-world racism.
The regime promoted pure blood ideology.
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- family treeChart of ancestors
- ancient lineageFamily line from antiquity
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
thoroughbred · born and bred · nobility · high born · aristocracy · wizard · untainted · dynasty · breeding · old money · ruling class · caste · elite · pedigree · royal · descent · unsullied · heir
- lineageancestry, royal dynasties, noble houses, dynasty, genealogy
- puritypristine, spotless, spotlessness, immaculate, immaculacy
pure bloodmixed blood
Combined racial heritage
mixed heritage · mixed breed · half-blood · mixed race · multiracial
pure bloodhalf-blood
Partial genetic relation
commoner · lowborn · baseborn · outsider · untouchable