uncleanness

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

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

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

On the first day of the feast, David’s absence passed unnoticed, Saul being under the impression that he had acquired ceremonial uncleanness.

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

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

A dead body is unclean, and the uncleanness extends to things and persons which touch it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various