immundicity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɪmənˈdɪsɪti/

Noun

immundicity (countable and uncountable, plural immundicities)

  1. (archaic) uncleanliness; filth
    • 1648, Walter Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia, or Devout Essaies
      this naturall immundicity was but a figure of that spirituall impurity of him and his Court

References

  • immundicity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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