Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being impure, especially.
- noun Contamination or pollution.
- noun Lack of consistency or homogeneity; adulteration.
- noun A state of immorality; sin.
- noun Something that renders something else impure; an inferior component or additive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being impure, in either a physical or a moral sense.
- noun That which is or makes impure, physically or morally: as, impurities in a liquid.
- noun Synonyms Uncleanness, dirtiness, filthiness; immodesty, ribaldry, grossness, vulgarity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
- noun That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.
- noun (Script.) Lack of ceremonial purity; defilement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
impure ; because ofcontamination ,pollution ,adulteration orinsufficient purification . - noun A
component oradditive thatrenders something else impure. - noun A state of
immorality orsin ; especially the weakness of the flesh:inchastity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
- noun the condition of being impure
Etymologies
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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.
Lee Schneider: The Problem with Living Pure Lee Schneider 2010
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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.
Lee Schneider: The Problem with Living Pure Lee Schneider 2010
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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 1999
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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 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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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.
unknown title 2009
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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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