uncleanness
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Distrust, defeat, uncleanness, humiliation, sickness, death, terror, envy, anxiety and contempt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
The uncleanness of the third plague deranged the whole system of Egyptian worship, with its punctilious and elaborate purifications.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick
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
Hence this uncleanness must belong to the same day on which it was incurred.
From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Archibald Thomas Robertson
He knew the theatre of the Roman city—"the consistory of all uncleanness" he calls it.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover