brightness, splendour, excellency; (ethically) purity, holiness, sanctification virtue, rectitude Vin.i.105 (visuddho paramāya visuddhiyā); DN.i.53; DN.iii.214 (diṭṭhi˚, sīla˚), DN.iii.288; MN.i.147; SN.iii.69; AN.i.95 (sīla˚ & diṭṭhi˚); AN.ii.80 (catasso dakkhiṇā˚), AN.ii.195; AN.iii.315; AN.v.64 (paramattha˚); Snp.813, Snp.824 Snp.840, Snp.892; Dhp.16 (kamma˚); Pts.i.21 (sīla˚, citta˚, diṭṭhi˚), Pts.ii.85 (id.); Mnd.138, Mnd.162; Vism.2; Snp-a.188 (˚divasa) Pv-a.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 Cnd.307; Ja.i.139; Vv-a.18. See under deva.

vi + suddhi