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uncleanness

  • a word derived from unclean.
    unclean
    adjective
    not clean; dirty.

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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 Octavius Brooks Frothingham

Jesus, then, does not mistake present defilement for habitual impurity, nor partial stain for total uncleanness.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

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 Richard Henry Dana

In the view of the Avesta impurity consists essentially in that which is opposed to life; hence there is no worse form of uncleanness than that caused by the corpse.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker

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