uncleanness

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

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

Fashion and Modernity.—Wherever ignorance, uncleanness, and superstition are still rife, where communication is backward, agriculture poor, and the priesthood powerful, national costumes are still worn.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

What must a woman have been through to want to grovel at this time of day in such uncleanness?

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

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

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.