[ US /ˌɪmˈpjʊɹ/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpjˈɔː/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws
    and the swine...is unclean to you
    unclean meat
  2. combined with extraneous elements
  3. (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene
    impure thoughts
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How To Use impure In A Sentence

  • Cratyn was so annoyingly devout, he probably felt the need for penance if he had an impure thought. TREASON KEEP
  • If he had kissed her with those uneloquent and untrained lips of his, impure in their purity, she would never have forgiven herself. Too Old for Dolls A Novel
  • impure thoughts
  • And that may be faid to be impure or mixt, which is partly voluntary, and partly involun - tary; voluntary abfolutely or upon the whole, but fecundum quidy or in a certain refpefit in - voluntary, or againft the inclination of the Will. An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ...
  • The missiles that fly are also schools that have not been built, water supplies that remain impure and diseases that stay uncured.
  • I'm not the only one either, who came here because they did something wrong or amoral or impure and is going to eternal damnation.
  • But part of the recognition of the Fall is to realize that though no person is wholly good or wholly evil, one is still obliged to fight on the side of justice, even if one's side is tainted by sin and impure motives.
  • Now, it is clear that this sacrifice is brought as a consequence of impurity from the fact that the same sacrifice of two turtle-doves or two pigeons is brought by a leper, a woman who has had an impure issue, and one who has just given birth.
  • The Bedouin traditionally hang amulets on the body of adults to prevent the evil eye, devils, impure spirits and other illnesses from attacking the bearer of the amulet.
  • In relatively pure condition it is called kaolin; in the impure state, mixed with sand and other substances, it forms common clay. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
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