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

They were to take the usual steps for freeing themselves of all ceremonial uncleanness, and after the sacrifice they were to share the feast.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden

Purify, pū′ri-fī, v.t. to make pure: to cleanse from foreign or hurtful matter: to free from guilt or uncleanness: to free from improprieties or barbarisms, as language.—v.i. to become pure:—pa.t. and pa.p. pū′rifīed.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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