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
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
A dead body is unclean, and the uncleanness extends to things and persons which touch it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
A literally "smashing" business was carrying on, but with an uncleanness that for many months impaired my predilection for this delicate crustacean.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
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 Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
