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

For years he had walked in ways of uncleanness, but he was now just waking from his awful sleep and turning his thoughts toward home.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry

This tapu was, in fact, the uncleanness of the old Jewish law, and lasted about the same time, and was removed in almost the same way.

From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Maori, A Pakeha

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

Simple habits kept his frame wiry, and a New England nurture saved his mind from luxuriant uncleanness.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks