impurity
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)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.
Đồng nghĩa: impureness
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A component or additive that renders something else impure.
The impurities in the iron ore made extraction of the iron very difficult.
Đồng nghĩa: adulterant, contamination, taint, adulterant, adulterator, contaminant, contamination, contaminator, impurity, pollutant, pollution, sophisticant, taint
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)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.
Đồng nghĩa: depravity, perversion, wickedness, baseness, corruption, defilement, degeneracy, degradation, depravation, depravedness, depravity, impurity, iniquity, lewdity, malignity, misdoing, misguilt, obliquity, peccability, perversion, pollution, pravity, sin, sinfulness, turpitude, vitiation, wickedness, wrongdoing
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From impure + -ity. From Middle French impurité, from la impuritas.