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

Even then the faithful servitor, remembering his uncleanness, forbore to lay a hand upon the recumbent figure.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.

If, therefore, meat is not unclean to him whose mind is not unclean, why shall that which a woman suffers according to nature, with a clean mind, be imputed to her as uncleanness?

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

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