IMPU'RITY, n. [L. impuritas, supra.] 1. Want of purity; foulness; feculence; the admixture of a foreign substance in any thing; as the impurity of water, of air, of spirits, or of any species of earth or metal.2. Any foul matter.3. Unchastity; lewdness. The foul impurities that reigned among the monkish clergy.4. Want of sanctity or holiness; defilement by guilt.5. Want of ceremonial purity; legal pollution or uncleanness. By the Mosaic law, a person contracted impurity by touching a dead body or a leper.6. Foul language; obscenity. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit.
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