Fifth vs Impure - What's the difference?
fifth | impure |
The ordinal form of the number five.
The person or thing in the fifth position.
One of five equal parts of a whole.
The fifth gear of an engine.
A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.
The musical interval between one note and another five tones higher.
The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
Not pure
Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed
Unchaste; lewd; unclean or obscene
(Judaism) Not virgin, having previously had sexual intercourse
* 2012 , Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery
(obsolete) to defile; to pollute
As a proper noun fifth
is the fifth amendment.As an adjective impure is
not pure.As a verb impure is
(obsolete) to defile; to pollute.fifth
English
(wikipedia fifth)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* ; (in names of monarchs and popes ) VNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (one of five equal parts)impure
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
- He was thinking impure thoughts.
- “No one would marry her if she was impure''', don't you see?” “'''Impure'''? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as '''impure .”