Example Sentences

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Distrust, defeat, uncleanness, humiliation, sickness, death, terror, envy, anxiety and contempt.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Simple habits kept his frame wiry, and a New England nurture saved his mind from luxuriant uncleanness.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

The two conceptions of holiness and uncleanness, which to us seem opposite and even contradictory, blend in the idea of taboo, in which both are implicitly held as it were in solution.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

It has no appearance of a jail without, but rather of a palace or court; but within, it is full of live men's bones and of all uncleanness.

From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry

They were to take the usual steps for freeing themselves of all ceremonial uncleanness, and after the sacrifice they were to share the feast.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden