spiritual purity
Inner moral spotlessness
Spiritual purity is a state of moral or religious cleanness—freedom from sin, corruption, or worldly contamination.
The concept appears across traditions: ritual washing, dietary laws, celibacy, and meditation all aim at spiritual purity.
Someone pursuing it seeks alignment with divine standards or transcendence of base impulses.
She devoted herself to spiritual purity through daily prayer and fasting.
- shintoJapan's native religion
- ablutionRitualized washing of body
- purificationRemoval of contaminants
- holinessSacred spiritual purity
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
vow of silence · asceticism · lustration · righteousness · detachment · sacred space · sanctification · transcendence · divinity · state of grace · sacredness · ceremonial washing · holy water · sanctity · sinlessness · grace · fasting · integrity
- virtuesintegrity, honesty, justice, courage, fairness
- literary themesheroism, hero's journey, ennui, social realism, morals
- religious dietvegetarianism, lacto-vegetarian, no meat, meatless, religious fasting
- Holiness Movementholiness, sanctification, perfect love, holy living, Wesley
- Occitan historyAlbigensian Crusade, Carcassonne, Simon de Montfort, Inquisition, troubadours
- ritual puritymikvah, mikveh, impurity, tevilah, ritual washing
spiritual puritymoral corruption
Degradation of ethical principles
impurity · wickedness · sinfulness · moral turpitude · iniquity
spiritual puritydefilement
Act of corrupting purity
profanity · sacrilege · desecration · uncleanliness · abomination
spiritual puritycarnality
Pursuit of bodily pleasures
worldliness · sensuality · lust · carnal nature · hedonism