Impurity Definition

ĭm-pyo͝orĭ-tē
impurities
noun
impurities
The state or quality of being impure.
Webster's New World
An impure thing or element.
Webster's New World
Something, as foreign matter or a pollutant, that renders something else impure.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Impurity

Noun

Singular:
impurity
Plural:
impurities

Origin of Impurity

  • impure +‎ -ity. From Middle French impurité.

    From Wiktionary

Impurity Sentence Examples

  • By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.

  • Persons and objects have to be washed to remove ritual impurity in the Law.

  • He is sent to a place where he washes himself clean from impurity.

  • The profound horror with which the Christian's conception of a suffering as well as an avenging divinity tended to make him regard all condemnable acts was tinged with a sentiment which we may perhaps describe as a ceremonial aversion moralized - the aversion, that is, to foulness or impurity.

  • The mane and tail should be silky and devoid of curl, which is a sign of impurity.

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Words Starting With

IIMIMP

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YTYITY

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