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 Chadwick, G. A.

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

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry

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

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 Frazer, James George, Sir