Dictionary Entry

impure

To defile; to pollute

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Common Phrases

. impureair impurewater impurethoughts impureblood impurelimestone impure

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Poetry examples for “impure”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And with stern countenance back again doth chace
Their looser lookes that stir up lustes impure.
With such strange termes* her eyes she doth inure,

. It is an impure carbonate of iron. An analysis before ns, by Pro^
feasor Rogers, of one of the best specimens fonnd in Fennsylyania, is,

It cannot parley with the mean,--
Pure by impure is not seen.
For there's no sequestered grot,

And every fair and every good
Known in part or known impure
To men below,

And every fair and every good,
Known in part, or known impure,
To men below,

yourself, they do not conceal you from me,
The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these
balk others they do not balk me,

Is sully'd in the stream; taking a taint
From touch of human lips, at best impure.
Oh for a world in principle as chaste