Impureness
(Im*pure"ness), n. The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. Milton.

Impurity
(Im*pu"ri*ty) n.; pl. Impurities [L. impuritas: cf. F. 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. (Script.) Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.

Impurple
(Im*pur"ple) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impurpled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Impurpling ] [Pref. im- in + purple. Cf. Empurple.] To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood.

Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled.
Milton.

The silken fleece impurpled for the loom.
Pope.

Imputability
(Im*put`a*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being imputable; imputableness.

Imputable
(Im*put"a*ble) a. [Cf. F. imputable.]

1. That may be imputed; capable of being imputed; chargeable; ascribable; attributable; referable.

A prince whose political vices, at least, were imputable to mental incapacity.
Prescott.

2. Accusable; culpable. [R.]

The fault lies at his door, and she is no wise imputable.
Ayliffe.

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