impurity : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: impurity	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for impurity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impurity n worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water" Synonym(s): impurity, dross the condition of being impure Synonym(s): impurity, impureness Antonym(s): pureness, purity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Impurity \Impu"rity\, n.; pl. Impurities . [L. impuritas: cf. F. impuret[82].] 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.