Definition of Impurety
Im*pu"ri*ty (?), n.; pl.
Impurities (#). [L. impuritas: cf. F.
impureté.]
1. The condition or quality of being impure
in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not
wit. Buckminster.
2. That which is, or which renders anything,
impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign
ingredient.
Foul impurities reigned among the monkish
clergy. Atterbury.
3. (Script.) Want of ceremonial
purity; defilement.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification
- A component or additive that renders something else impure
- A state of immorality or sin
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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