impurity
/ɪmˈpjɝɪti/ noun C1- 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.
Plural impurities
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Darcy may, perhaps, have _heard_ of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month’s ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and, depend upon it, Mr.
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