unclean
adjective
not clean; dirty.
uncleanness
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a word derived from
unclean.
Example Sentences
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Distrust, defeat, uncleanness, humiliation, sickness, death, terror, envy, anxiety and contempt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
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
The reform, which bears the name of Zarathrustra, must have extended and increased in Iran the rules for purification and the removal of uncleanness.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
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 Sir James George Frazer
After a few words about the Fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, the speaker passed out, leaving the people with their eyes fixed upon the clock, and their thoughts upon the Saviour.
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland
