Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Impurity

Impurity , noun

[Latin impuritas: compare French impureté.]

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
3.
(Scripture) Lack of ceremonial purity; defilement.