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Webster 1913 Edition
Impurity
Im-pu′ri-ty
,Noun.
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.)
Lack of ceremonial purity; defilement.
Definition 2024
impurity
impurity
English
Noun
impurity (plural impurities)
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- Even animals in the Jewish system cause impurity only when they are dead.
- A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- The impurities in the iron ore made extraction of the iron very difficult.
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- A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
- With his cheating, lying and stealing, he epitomised the impurity of humanity.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
the condition of being impure
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a component or additive that renders something else impure
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a state of immorality
