unpureadj.

c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 499 Of sunnes we beþ vn-pure.

a1425 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (London Univ.) (1873) C. i. l. 116 For þay were prestes vnpure.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 106 Hov vnpure all oure werkes are we weyle not.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cclviii^v Nought chaste thou techyst: but thynge vnpure and vyle.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xxxiij Thus was the churche fylled with vnpure mynysters.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 237 I hope such vnpure minds will amend their impure errours.

1624 J. Donne Deuotions ix. 222 Of so vnpure constitutions, as that wee can present no obiect but sin.

1742 in J. Wesley Jrnl. (1749) 41 Dost thou believe, thy heart must be thus unpure?

1893 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 29 Jan. 23/5 All that is base and unpure and evil, Goes out of my heart when I think of her.

1934 J. Stuart Man with Bull-tongue Plow 80 I have been told my faith is not secure, My brain quite primitive, my thoughts unpure.

2001 Washington Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. a17 To protect our political freedom of speech, we must also grant it to those of unpure motives.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 310 (MED) Blaknesse is ygendred of skars light and dymme incorporat in clere matiere..þat is dymme and vnpure.

a1500 Ratis Raving (Cambr. Kk.1.5) l. 156 in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 5 Quhilk is stinkand aire vnpure.

1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 10 §1 Malte unpure and unseasonable.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions 9 b When the humours be not sufficiently..concocted and attenuate, vnpure Spirites proceede out of them.

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. iii. 213 The mixture of pure, and unpure, that is to say, of different parts in..the same mixt body.

1732 T. Short Proposals for printing Hist. Mineral Waters i. 40/2 Bodies which be unpure and unpurged of common Excrements.

1837 Satirist 29 Jan. 456/2 (advt.) Those diseases arising from an unpure state of the blood.

1889 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 12 Feb. A few faint at the slightest cause, fear, joy, grief, unpleasant sights, noisome smells, heated and unpure air.

1915 Trans. Amer. Inst. Metals 8 81 It [sc. soapstone] is usually unpure and makes a harsh, gritty facing.

1987 Amer. Poetry Rev. 16 36/2 The pure and unpure waters gather and run Carrying chunks of ice with the good soil Over the precipice.

2005 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 20 Nov. 6 Last year the association took two ‘major retailers’ to task for pushing unpure cashmere onto unsuspecting consumers.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iv. xi. 192 If one feuer do exceed the other, then it is called an vnpure hemitrice.

c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 140 (MED) As sone as he þat hathe afore livid vnclenely and vnpurly bigynneth forto live chast, Anone he fyndeth batayle.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. Pref. sig. A.ij They..teache the verite of God vnpurely.

1606 E. Forset Compar. Disc. Bodies Nat. & Politique 21 O let not the pure substance of the soule, for some few his imperfections be vnpurely censured.

1739 J. Reynolds Script. Geneal. 26 The Romish Monks vow Poverty and exceed in Riches, vow Chastity and live Unpurely.

1895 M. B. G. Eddy Let. 17 Apr. in McClure's Mag. (1908) Mar. 710/1 But this I warn you, to stop falsifying and living unpurely in thought, in vile schemes, in fraudulent money-getting, etc.

a1425 ( H. Daniel Liber Uricrisiarum (Wellcome 225) 205 (MED) If þe malady is multiplyed be prosses of tym, & þan is þe uryn whyte & thyk, þe blanes or ellys dymnes is caused of enfeccion, of unpurness of humours in þe body.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke ii. f. 20^v For what point of vnpurenes coulde suche a woman haue in bearyng childe, as..had conceiued by the onely power and vertue of God.

1573 T. Cartwright Replye to Answere Whitgifte 13 Christe..shall couer all oure vnpurenesse and not impute it vnto vs.

1613 L. Bayly Practise of Pietie (ed. 3) 666 Thou shouldest lay aside, all vnpurenesse of heart and vncleannesse of life, and be furnished with humility and charity.

2011 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 18 Aug. 2 Many of the women Mrs. Mai initially rescued have since married. ‘They were lucky to find men who were able to understand that their unpureness was not their fault and loved them for who they were,’ she said.