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impure (adj.)
mid-15c., from Middle French
impur
(13c.), from Latin
impurus
"unclean, filthy, foul," from assimilated form of
in-
"not, opposite of" (see
in-
(1)) +
purus
"pure" (see
pure
). As a noun from 1784. Related:
Impurely
.