visuddhi : [f.] purity; holiness; splendour; excellency.

Visuddhi (f.) [vi+suddhi] brightness, splendour, excel- lency; (ethically) purity, holiness, sanctification; virtue, rectitude Vin i.105 (visuddho paramāya visuddhiyā); D i.53; iii.214 (diṭṭhi˚, sīla˚), 288; M i.147; S iii.69; A i.95 (sīla˚ & diṭṭhi˚); ii.80 (catasso dakkhiṇā˚), 195; iii.315; v.64 (paramattha˚); Sn 813, 824, 840, 892; Dh 16 (kamma˚); Ps i.21 (sīla˚, citta˚, diṭṭhi˚); ii.85 (id.); Nd1 138, 162; Vism 2; SnA 188 (˚divasa), PvA 13 (˚cittatā); Sdhp 447. A class of divine beings (dogmatically the highest in the stages of development, viz. gods by sanctification) is called visuddhi -- devā Nd2 307; J i.139; VvA 18. See under deva.