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impure
English
Etymology
From Middle French impur, from Latin impurus
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Adjective
impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)
- Not pure
- Containing undesired intermixtures
- The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
- Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
- Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
- He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.
- 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery
- “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”
- Containing undesired intermixtures
Synonyms
- imperfect, tainted
Antonyms
- pure
Related terms
- impuration
- impurely
- impureness
- impurify
- impurity
Translations
Verb
impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)
- (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute
References
- impure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- impure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- rumpie, umpire
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.py?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Adjective
impure
- feminine singular of impur
Italian
Adjective
impure f pl
- feminine plural of impuro
Latin
Etymology 1
Adverb
imp?r? (comparative imp?rius, superlative imp?rissim?)
- basely, shamefully, infamously
- impurely
Etymology 2
Adjective
imp?re
- vocative masculine singular of imp?rus
References
- impure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- impure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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irreclaimable
English
Etymology
ir- +? reclaimable
Adjective
irreclaimable
- Incapable of being reclaimed; not reclaimable.
- irreclaimable land
- Unredeemable.
- an irreclaimable criminal
- 1836, Grantley Berkeley, Berkeley Castle: An Historical Romance (volume 1, page 174)
- Even then, Wingfield endeavoured to retain the hawk by the substitution of another — young Kate, as he called her, a wild, raking bird as ever flew, whose kitish propensities had, some time before, led him to give her up as irreclaimable.
Derived terms
- irreclaimably
References
- irreclaimable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- irreclaimable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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