Word Meanings - IMPURITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of ceremonial purity; defilement. (more info) 1. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster. 2. That which is, or which renders

Additional info about word: IMPURITY

Want of ceremonial purity; defilement. (more info) 1. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster. 2. That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient. Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPURITY)

• Sin
• Transgression
• iniquity
• unrighteousness
• ungodliness
• wickedness
• evil
• impurity
• crime
• wrongdoing

Related words: (words related to IMPURITY)

• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• CRIME
  which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
• CRIMELESS
  Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
• IMPURITY
  Want of ceremonial purity; defilement. (more info) 1. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster. 2. That which is, or which renders
• WICKEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness. God saw that the wickedness of man was great. Gen. vi. 5. Their inward part is very
• TRANSGRESSION
  The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin. Forgive thy people . . . all their transgressions wherein they
• WRONGDOER
  One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
• TRANSGRESSIONAL
  Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.
• INIQUITY
  1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth
• CRIMEFUL
  Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. Shak.
• FALSICRIMEN
  The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
• SCRIMER
  A fencing master. Shak.