Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being impure, especially:
- n. Contamination or pollution.
- n. Lack of consistency or homogeneity; adulteration.
- n. A state of immorality; sin.
- n. Something that renders something else impure; an inferior component or additive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- n. A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- n. A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
- n. That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.
- n. Lack of ceremonial purity; defilement.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The condition or quality of being impure, in either a physical or a moral sense.
- n. That which is or makes impure, physically or morally: as, impurities in a liquid.
- n. Synonyms Uncleanness, dirtiness, filthiness; immodesty, ribaldry, grossness, vulgarity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
- n. the condition of being impure
Etymologies
Examples
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The frequency with which this character of "impurity" is ascribed to evil spirits -- some twenty times in the Gospels -- is not to be overlooked. and he cried out -- as follows:
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This will sound a bit like a Zen koan, but I don't think people are meant to be pure, because impurity is the very essence of our purity.
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The rhetoric of desecration and impurity is precisely the rhetoric of the discourse of blasphemy.
The Discourse of Treason, Sedition, and Blasphemy in British Political Trials, 1794-1820
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The spirit (Ps 32: 2) receives pollution through the flesh, the instrument of uncleanness. perfecting holiness -- The cleansing away impurity is a positive step towards holiness (2Co 6: 17).
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Their own inward impurity is reflected in their eyes in the world without them, and hence their asceticism (Tit 1: 14, 15) [Wiesinger].
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(1Ki 8: 46). is removed -- as a woman separated from the congregation of God for legal impurity, which is a type of moral impurity.
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Israelites, they were, to a certain extent, associated with the notion of impurity; they might be turned to profitable account by their labour or otherwise, but in respect to food they were an abomination.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
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This chronic human rights condition, which is associated with the notion of impurity, pollution, and practices of "untouchability," involves massive violations of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights.
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Nora-Jane Noone) who have been committed by their families to the Magdalene Asylum for (sometimes trumped-up) "impurity" -- aka sexual deviance.
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Will the Party applaud the rare and welcome victory, or will they deplore the ideological "impurity" that Christie represents?
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