Substantive use, chiefly preceded by the definite article: ‘the impure’ meaning impure people or things as a class.
Translations
impursEmploi substantivé au pluriel. The impure were barred from the sacred precinct.
Les impurs étaient exclus de l’enceinte sacrée.
Definitions
People (or, rarely, things) regarded collectively as being morally, ritually, or physically unclean. The impure were barred from the sacred precinct.