Antonyms for impurity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : im-pyoor-i-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpyʊər ɪ ti

Definition of impurity

Origin : mid-15c., "thing which makes or is impure;" c.1500, "fact or quality of being impure," from Middle French impurité, from impur (see impure). Related: Impurities.

noun contaminant

Example sentences :

Then skim off whatever milk or impurity may rise to the top.
Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie

Any turbidness or impurity in the water will injure the clearness of the sweetmeats.
Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie

And no thought of impurity came to him on beholding that lily, snowy whiteness.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Woman, restrained to purity, has of necessity fallen often into impurity.
Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley

It was she who was the slave; she, the creature of impurity, to whom the Church should have denied a soul.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

She had been impure—but her impurity swathed her in mystic seductiveness.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

Purity and impurity belong to oneself; no one can purify another.
Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies

Mazdaism is governed throughout by ideas of purity and impurity.
Extract from : « The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism » by Franz Cumont

We are self-indulgent--and how often that can lead to impurity!
Extract from : « The Calvary Road » by Roy Hession

By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.
Extract from : « Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience » by Henry David Thoreau

Synonyms for impurity

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