immundicity
English
editEtymology
editCompare French immondicité, Portuguese imundície, Latin immunditia, English immundities.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editimmundicity (countable and uncountable, plural immundicities) (archaic)
- (uncountable) Filth, uncleanliness; (countable) an instance of this.
- 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Ninth Treatise. Of the Condition of Courts, Princes, and Courtiers. §. II. The Vitiousnesse of Heathen Souls Censured, and the Consequence of the Example of Princes, Urged as a Charge upon the Virtue of Their Lives.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 93:
- [T]his naturall immundicity vvas but a figure of that ſpirituall impurity of him and his Court; […]
References
edit- “immundicity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.