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impure

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English

Etymology

From Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)

  1. Not pure
    1. Containing undesired intermixtures
      The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
    2. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
    3. Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
      He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.
      • 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery:
        “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”

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Verb

impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

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French

Pronunciation

Adjective

impure

  1. feminine singular of impur

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imˈpu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: im‧pù‧re

Adjective

impure

  1. feminine plural of impuro

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adverb

impūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)

  1. basely, shamefully, infamously
  2. impurely

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

impūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of impūrus

References

  • impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • impure”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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