Definitions for impurity

impurity im·pu·ri·ty

Spelling: [im-pyoo r-i-tee]
IPA: /ɪmˈpyʊər ɪ ti/

Impurity is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in impurity (iimprtuy).

Definitions for impurity

noun

  1. the quality or state of being impure.
  2. Often, impurities. something that is or makes impure:

Origin of impurity

1400-50; late Middle English impurite Latin impūritās. See impure, -ity

Examples for impurity

Any turbidness or impurity in the water will injure the clearness of the sweetmeats.

It just recreates that whole dynamic that we had around the public option--liberal despair at Obama's impurity.

And no thought of impurity came to him on beholding that lily, snowy whiteness.

Purity and impurity belong to oneself; no one can purify another.

Rather it would be more accurate to describe such outcomes as “impurely political”—with the emphasis on impurity.

Then skim off whatever milk or impurity may rise to the top.

It was she who was the slave; she, the creature of impurity, to whom the Church should have denied a soul.

Woman, restrained to purity, has of necessity fallen often into impurity.

She had been impure—but her impurity swathed her in mystic seductiveness.

Mazdaism is governed throughout by ideas of purity and impurity.

Word Value for impurity
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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