Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Probity Roget’s Thesaurus §939
N. probity, integrity, rectitude, uprightness, honesty, faith, honor, bonne foi, good faith, bona fides, purity, clean hands, fairness, fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness, grace, constancy, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, incorruption, incorruptibility, trustworthiness, truth, candor, singleness of heart, veracity, tender conscience, punctilio, delicacy, nicety, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, scruple, point, point of honor, punctuality, dignity &c, (repute) 873, respectability, respectableness, gentilhomme, gentleman, man of honor, man of his word, fidus achates, preux chevalier, galantuomo, truepenny, trump, brick, true briton, white man *, court of honor, a fair field and no favor, argumentum ad verecundiam
V. be honorable, deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly, speak the truth, draw a straight furrow, tell the truth and shame the devil, vitam impendere vero, show a proper spirit, make a point of, do one's duty, redeem one's pledge, keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as good as one's word, keep faith with, not fail, give and take, audire alteram partem, give the devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse, redound to one's honor
Adj. upright, honest, honest as daylight, veracious, virtuous, honorable, fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square, fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard, white *, constant, constant as the northern star, faithful, loyal, staunch, true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole, "marble-constant", true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy, as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible, straightforward, frank, candid, open-hearted, conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded, high-principled, high-minded, scrupulous, religious, strict, nice, punctilious, correct, punctual, respectable, reputable, gentlemanlike, inviolable, inviolate, unviolated, unbroken, unbetrayed, unbought, unbribed, innocent, pure, stainless, unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, undepraved, undebauched, integer vitae scelerisque purus, justus et tenax propositi, chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche, high- spirited, supramundane, unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous
Adv. honorable, bona fide, on the square, in good faith, honor bright, foro conscientiae, with clean hands
Phr. "a face untaught to feign", bene qui latuit bene vixit, mens sibi conscia recti, probitas laudatur et alget, fidelis ad urnam, "his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth", loyaute m'oblige, loyaute n'a honte, "what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?"
Innocence Roget’s Thesaurus §946
N. innocence, guiltlessness, # incorruption, impeccability, clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti, innocent, lamb, dove
Adj. innocent, not guilty, unguilty, guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless, clear, immaculate, rectus in curia, unspotted, unblemished, unerring, undefiled, unhardened, saturnian, arcadian, inculpable, unculpable, unblamed, unblamable, blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion, irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable, salvable, venial, harmless, inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous, dove-like, lamb- like, pure, harmless as doves, innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn, "more sinned against than sinning", virtuous, unreproved, unimpeached, unreproached
Adv. innocently, with clean hands, with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience
Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana
Purity Roget’s Thesaurus §960
N. purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, # chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, joseph, hippolytus, lucretia, diana, prude
Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry
Phr. "as chaste as unsunn'd snow", "a soul as white as heaven", "'tis chastity, my brother, chastity", "to the pure all things are pure"
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
15 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Undefiled”
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled, which hath not known the sinful bed: she shall have fruit in the visitation of souls.
Yea rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.
So this man died undefiled, and put his whole trust in the Lord.
So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.
