Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ɪmˈpjɝɪti/, /ɪmˈpjuɹɪti/
impurity
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- Even animals in the Jewish system cause impurity only when they are dead.
- A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- The impurities in the iron ore made extraction of the iron very difficult.
- A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
- With his cheating, lying and stealing, he epitomised the impurity of humanity.
- French: impureté
- German: Unreinheit, Verunreinigung
- Portuguese: impuridade, impureza
- Russian: нечистота́
- German: Unreinheit, Fremdkörper
- Portuguese: impureza, impuridade
- Russian: при́месь
- Spanish: impureza
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