uncleanness

Distrust, defeat, uncleanness, humiliation, sickness, death, terror, envy, anxiety and contempt.

“For those sweating, leaking, reeking, dreaming travelers in the hyper-arid Middle East, the desert promised asylum — both from garden England and from their own body and its cursed fecundity and importuning, its uncleanness.”

Under duress, she admitted to “familiarity with the Devil” and “uncleanness with men and devils,” thereby providing the first recorded confession of witchcraft in the American colonies.

The particular group of sheep grown outside of Bethlehem were grown specifically for temple sacrifice, Rambo said, but the shepherds themselves weren’t allowed into the temple because of their uncleanness.

But in India, lawmakers have recast the debate as a stark divide between heavenly purity or earthly uncleanness.