impure
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French impur, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin impurus
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
Adjective
impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)
- Not pure
- Containing undesired intermixtures
- The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
- Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
- Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
- He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.
- 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery
- “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”
- Containing undesired intermixtures
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Verb
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- (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute
References
- “impure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “impure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
impure
Italian
Adjective
impure f pl
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective impuro.
Latin
Etymology 1
Adverb
impūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)
Etymology 2
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) impūre
References
- “impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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