What's the difference between purity and righteousness?

Purity


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of being pure.
  • (n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.
  • (n.) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.
  • (n.) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.
  • (n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.
  • (n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
  • (2) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
  • (3) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
  • (4) The observed purity under the selected conditions ranges from 80%-99% and is in accordance with the estimates of the purities made on the basis of the simultaneously recorded pulse shapes.
  • (5) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
  • (6) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.
  • (7) It is suggested that more attention be paid to the 'purity' of scales if meaningful interpretation is to be made in treatment assessment.
  • (8) Based on the ratio of plasma membrane marker enzyme activity determined in the nuclear preparation, the purity of the isolated nuclei was ascertained.
  • (9) In contrast to high-purity commercial concentrates, fibronectin was considerably concentrated.
  • (10) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
  • (11) Using 14C-labelled nitrous bases as starting substrates, labelled nucleosides and nucleotides can be obtained with the 75-80% yield that have radioactive purity of 95-99%.
  • (12) Purity was controlled by disc electrophoresis on polyacrylamide e gels at pH 4.3 and by two dimensional immunoelectrophoresis, respectively.
  • (13) The enzyme obtained by this procedure has both the biochemical and the spectral properties of EPO and shows a reasonable degree of purity, as judged by its rz value.
  • (14) Intact Golgi apparatus have been isolated with good purity from rat testis by a simplified sucrose gradient technique.
  • (15) Finally the higher purity degree of monoclonal antibodies in the cell culture supernatant is also a major advantage of serum free media.
  • (16) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
  • (17) A sensitive and specific analytical method was developed to determine the enantiomeric purity of naproxen.
  • (18) It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation.
  • (19) Under these conditions, 79--100% of the cells were removed, yielding epithelial fractions of 65--90% purity.
  • (20) The purity of each sample was assured by measurement of the protein concentration of each sample and comparison of this parameter to known normal values for perilymph, serum, and CSF.

Righteousness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.
  • (n.) A righteous act, or righteous quality.
  • (n.) The act or conduct of one who is righteous.
  • (n.) The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground of justification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
  • (2) [When he comes to a gig] it’s like a mate at school turning up.” Watson’s record of campaigns against phone hacking and establishment child abuse have also won him cross-party admiration and a public profile as a righteous crusader.
  • (3) Grass's new collection of poetry, Eintagsfliegen , published in Germany last week, describes Vanunu as a "role model and hero of our time" who "hoped to serve his country by helping to bring the truth to light", and calls on Israelis to "recognise ... as righteous" the man "who remained loyal to his country all those years", according to German reports .
  • (4) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
  • (5) The Tea Party represents a serious strand in American public life – old-world fundamentalist in its exclusivity, self-righteousness and religious zeal.
  • (6) They are so convinced of their righteousness they cannot admit their faults.
  • (7) Skylight gives voice to private enterprise’s self-righteous hostility towards those who work in the public services.
  • (8) The FBI are sceptical that Pyongyang was responsible, and the government there denies that it had any involvement, even if it describes the hack as “a righteous deed”.
  • (9) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
  • (10) They converted and started to insult us, saying we do not believe in the oneness of Allah because of our love for saints.” Every Pakistani knows these preaching, self-righteous conservatives ... but you never expect them to indulge in violence Nadeem Farooq Paracha Like so many others, the Malik family were helped along in their religious journey by the experience of living as guest workers in the oil-rich Arab world.
  • (11) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
  • (12) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
  • (13) Increasingly, the paranoid defensiveness of the zealots cannot be reconciled with the righteous anger of those who believe every superlative performance must be suspect.
  • (14) True, as we were reminded last week, members of the EDL have miraculously survived all such conditioning; equally, these extremists now risk being righteously snubbed in Mens' Socks.
  • (15) It is, I imagine, the same sentiment a potential jihadist feels when he or she foolishly believes that they’re being righteously called upon to fight for the creation of an Islamic state, as if that might fix what are largely personal troubles.
  • (16) A muted reaction works better than the self-righteous explosion they are sometimes hankering after.
  • (17) Typical of the PC brigade - one Iraqi man gets beaten to death and they are down on you like a ton of righteous liberal bricks!
  • (18) In its proper context – of a US puffed up with righteousness and seized by Islamophobia – I think Homeland is a revolutionary piece of work, merely by having the courage to tell a story from the perspective of two characters who are questioning whether US policy in the Middle East is right.
  • (19) Thanks to recent appearances on Question Time and Newsnight , it is popular – righteous, even – to loathe David Starkey.
  • (20) It was a bad business but not as bad as the self-righteous Carswell or the tax-shy Tory press made it sound at the time.