Definition of "impurity" []

• The quality or condition of being impure, especially: (noun)
• Contamination or pollution. (noun)
• Lack of consistency or homogeneity; adulteration. (noun)
• A state of immorality; sin. (noun)
• Something that renders something else impure; an inferior component or additive. (noun)

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• "The frequency with which this character of "impurity" is ascribed to evil spirits -- some twenty times in the Gospels -- is not to be overlooked. and he cried out -- as follows:"
• "This will sound a bit like a Zen koan, but I don't think people are meant to be pure, because impurity is the very essence of our purity."
• "The rhetoric of desecration and impurity is precisely the rhetoric of the discourse of blasphemy."