spurcity

English

Etymology

From Latin spurcitia.

Noun

spurcity (plural spurcities)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Filth, impurity (literal and figurative senses).
    • 1651, Peter Hausted (translator), Hymnus Tabaci: A Poem in Honour of Tabaco by Raphael Thorius, London: Humphrey Moseley, Book 2, p. 48,
      Whether the Channels of the Urine be
      Coroded by a nitrous spurcity […]
    • 1829, Robert Taylor, The Diegesis, London: Richard Carlile, Chapter 22, p. 216, footnote,
      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 […]
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