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.

We are here moving in a realm of ideas prevailing in ancient Israel respecting holiness, uncleanness and sin, which are ceremonial and not ethical; see especially Robertson Smith’s Religion of the Semites, 2nd ed., p.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

The fear of uncleanness and pollution, and the methods of cleansing that were advisable, constituted another source of power for the knowledgeable men and women.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

He is that living fountain that purifies all our uncleanness, and makes all our works acceptable in his sight.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann