pure-impure

English

Adjective

pure-impure (not comparable)

1. Completely or totally impure.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:

     The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pure-impure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• puerperium