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† unˈpure, a. Obs.
[un-1 7, 5 b. Cf. MDu. onpuur, MLG. unpûr, MSw. opur.]
1. Morally impure.
a1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 226 Of sunnes we beþ vnpure. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. i. 116 (Ilchester MS.), For þay were prestes vnpure. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xxxvi. 106 Hov vnpure all oure werkes are we weyle not. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 258 b, Nought chaste thou techyst, but thynge vnpure and vyle. 1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. F iij, Thus was the churche fylled wyth vnpure ministers. 1604T. Wright Passions v. 237, I hope such vnpure minds will amend their impure errours. 1624Donne Devot. 210 Of so vnpure constitutions, as that we can present no obiect but sin. 1742in Wesley Jrnl. (1749) 41 Dost thou believe, thy heart must be thus unpure?
2. Not physically pure or clean.
a1500Ratis Raving i. 156 Quhilk is stinkand aire vnpure. 1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 10 §1 Malte unpure and unseasonable. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. 9 b, When the humours be not sufficiently..concocted and attenuate, vnpure Spirites proceede out of them. 1651Wittie Primrose's Pop. Err. iv. iii. 213 The mixture of pure, and unpure, that is to say, of different parts in..the same mixt body.
3. Not genuine or true.
1590Burrough Meth. Physick 246 If one feuer do exceede the other, then it is called an vnpure hemitrice.
Hence † unˈpurely adv., -ness. Obs.
1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. A ij b They..teache the veryte of God *vnpurely.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke ii. 20 b, For what point of *vnpurenes coulde suche a woman haue in bearyng childe, as..had conceiued by the onely power and vertue of God. 1573T. Cartwright Replye to Answ. Whitgift 13 Christe..shall couer all oure vnpurenesse and not impute it vnto vs. |