uncleanness
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Distrust, defeat, uncleanness, humiliation, sickness, death, terror, envy, anxiety and contempt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
We are here moving in a realm of ideas prevailing in ancient Israel respecting holiness, uncleanness and sin, which are ceremonial and not ethical; see especially Robertson Smith’s Religion of the Semites, 2nd ed., p.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
Fashion and Modernity.—Wherever ignorance, uncleanness, and superstition are still rife, where communication is backward, agriculture poor, and the priesthood powerful, national costumes are still worn.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Ab-i-Khonsar, which supplies the drinking water, percolates through "dead men's bones and all uncleanness."
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
But apparently to complete the type, the law gave to it the artificial contagion of ceremonial uncleanness, and banished the unhappy sufferer from the dwellings of men.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
