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spurcity

spurcity noun: filth, impurity.

Noun

spurcity (plural spurcities)

  1. (figuratively, obsolete, rare, sometimes) Filth, impurity.
    • Whether the Channels of the Urine be
      Coroded by a nitrous spurcity […]1651, Raphael Thorius, translated by Peter Hausted, Hymnus Tabaci: A Poem in Honour of Tabaco, London: Humphrey Moseley, Book 2, p. 48
    • The editors of the Unitarian New Version of the New Testament, who very modestly wish to shovel all these spurcities and salacities out of the sacred text, have the impudence to tell us, in a note, that they were interpolated to lessen the odium attached to Christianity […]1829, Robert Taylor, The Diegesis, London: Richard Carlile, Chapter 22, p. 216, footnote

Forms of spurcity

pluralspurcities

Origin of spurcity

From Latin spurcitia.

Questions about spurcity

What does spurcity mean?
Spurcity means filth, impurity.
What part of speech is spurcity?
Spurcity is a noun.
What is the plural of spurcity?
The plural of spurcity is spurcities.

Words near spurcity in the dictionary

  1. spur-winged lapwing
  2. spur-winged lapwings
  3. spur-winged plover
  4. spur-winged plovers
  5. spurcities
  6. spurcity
  7. spurdog
  8. spurdogs
  9. spurflower
  10. spurflowers
  11. spurfowl

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