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

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 Chadwick, G. A.

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

"It is reported that there is uncleanness among you."

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry