Meaning
IMPU'RENESS
IMPU'RITY, n. [L. impuritas, supra.]
1. Want of purity; foulness; feculence; the admixture of a foreign substance in any thing; as the impurity of water, of air, of spirits, or of any species of earth or metal.
2. Any foul matter.
3. Unchastity; lewdness.
The foul impurities that reigned among the monkish clergy.
4. Want of sanctity or holiness; defilement by guilt.
5. Want of ceremonial purity; legal pollution or uncleanness. by the Mosaic law, a person contracted impurity by touching a dead body or a leper.
6. Foul language; obscenity.
Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit.
