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Definition of Impureness
1. Noun. The condition of being impure.
Generic synonyms: Condition, Status
Specialized synonyms: Adulteration, Debasement, Admixture, Alloy, Contamination, Taint, Dirtiness, Putridity, Pollution
Derivative terms: Impure, Impure
Antonyms: Purity
Definition of Impureness
1. n. The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.
Definition of Impureness
1. Noun. The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impureness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impureness
Literary usage of Impureness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Psychological Theory of by Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald (1887)
"It may, perhaps, sound rather cynical if I say that in the day of small mercies
we have at last arrived at a " pureness rooted in impureness," a feint of ..."
2. An Historico-critical Introduction to the Canonical Books of the New Testament by Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette, Frederick Frothingham (1858)
"impureness of the New Testament Language. §. ... The impureness, however, refers
to the use of language rather than to the construction of sentences, ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1885)
"God hath not called us to impureness, but unto holiness, adds his apostle.
Perhaps there is no doctrine of Christianity which is exposed to more trial ..."
4. Resolves, divine, moral, political by Owen Felltham (1840)
"And it is fit even in nature and policy, that this propriety should be inviolable:
First, in respect of the impureness of mixed posterity. ..."
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