Im-pūre'ness or Im-pū'ri-ty, n.
n. [Lat. impuritas, Fr. impureté, Pr. impuritat, It. impurità, Sp. impuridad.]
Sense 1. The condition or quality of being impure; want of purity; foulness; feculence; pollution; defilement; obscenity; lewdness; as, the impurity of water, of air, of spirits, of character, language, behavior, and the like.
Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.
Sense 2. That which is impure; foul matter, action, language, &c.
The foul impurities that reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.
Sense 3. (Old Test.) Want of ceremonial purity; defilement; pollution.