Dictionary entry

Impurity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.