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

Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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