uncleanness
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Distrust, defeat, uncleanness, humiliation, sickness, death, terror, envy, anxiety and contempt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
It has no appearance of a jail without, but rather of a palace or court; but within, it is full of live men's bones and of all uncleanness.
From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry
The fear of uncleanness and pollution, and the methods of cleansing that were advisable, constituted another source of power for the knowledgeable men and women.
From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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
The common conscience condemns lying and theft, malice and uncleanness; they were denounced with eloquence by heathen moralists.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.