Meanings
plural spurcities
- figurativelyobsoleteraresometimesFilth, 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. 481 more example
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
Origin
- Latinspurcitia
- Englishspurcity
From Latin spurcitia.
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