immundicity

English

Etymology

Compare French immondicité, Portuguese imundície, Latin immunditia, English immundities.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪmənˈdɪsɪti/

Noun

immundicity (countable and uncountable, plural immundicities) (archaic)

1. (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

• “immundicity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.