Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Even then the faithful servitor, remembering his uncleanness, forbore to lay a hand upon the recumbent figure.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.

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

But apparently to complete the type, the law gave to it the artificial contagion of ceremonial uncleanness, and banished the unhappy sufferer from the dwellings of men.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

On the first day of the feast, David’s absence passed unnoticed, Saul being under the impression that he had acquired ceremonial uncleanness.

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