uncleanness
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Distrust, defeat, uncleanness, humiliation, sickness, death, terror, envy, anxiety and contempt.
From New York Times β 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 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
Jesus, then, does not mistake present defilement for habitual impurity, nor partial stain for total uncleanness.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
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
