cleanness
the state or quality of having clean or trim lines: the cleanness of the aircraft’s design.
the state or quality of being gracefully spare, or forceful and simple: the author’s cleanness of style and expression.
the quality or state of being clean and neat; cleanliness:the cleanness of the air.
Origin of cleanness
1Words that may be confused with cleanness
- cleanliness, cleanness
Words Nearby cleanness
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How to use cleanness in a sentence
So from thence home, where my house of office was emptying, and I find they will do, it with much more cleanness than I expected.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysWe were surprised at the cleanness and neatness of the building, and at the large number of people within it.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusWhat joy when he won his first happy high dive—into cleanness leaping with keen lithe grace.
Heroes of To-Day | Mary R. Parkmancleanness, however, seems to come under temperance, for this it is which precludes bodily defilement.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life | St. Thomas AquinasTemperance indeed worketh cleanness, but this has not the ratio of sanctity except it be referred to God.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life | St. Thomas Aquinas
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