unpurifyingadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpjʊərᵻfʌɪɪŋ/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈpjɔːrᵻfʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈpjurəˌfaɪɪŋ/ Not serving to purify.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > [adjective] > not purifying
unpurifying1796
1796 J. Clowes Serm. Parish Church St. John, Manch. II. xxv. 245 Not hereby a dead, a barren, an unpurifying and unprofitable faith.
1856 Punch 1 Mar. 83/2 Womankind,..the peculiar agents in the administration of that unpurifying discipline [sc. the pillory].
1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ vii. 319 The discipline which teaches humility is not unpurifying.
1949 R. F. C. Hull tr. M. Buber Paths in Utopia vi. 47 Everything intermediate, everything that interposes itself, is impure and unpurifying.
2000 J. Russell Reciprocities in Nonfiction Novel v. 120 In ‘Cerium’ the obviously unpurifying allusion to Buck the dog, and his reverting to the wild, receives the approval of every reader.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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