Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being clean.
- noun Freedom from ceremonial pollution.
- noun Exactness; purity; justness; correctness: used of language or style.
- noun Moral purity; innocence; freedom from anything dishonorable, immoral, or sinful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being clean.
- noun Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.
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- noun
Moral purity ;innocence . - noun The state of being physically
clean and free ofcontamination ordirt ;cleanliness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities
- noun without moral defects
Etymologies
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Examples
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She then added a comic by Sherif Arafa, an Egyptian writer, about how the whole Cairo cleanness is going to end as soon as Obama takes off his plan:
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Will there be any action after Obama’s Talk? 2009
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Last night is passed over, like an excessively bad dream; and I am sitting here in cleanness and quiet, announcing my safety so far.
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But wit you well there shall none attain it but by cleanness, that is pure confession.
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But wit you well there shall none attain it but by cleanness, that is pure confession.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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But wit you well there shall none attain it but by cleanness, that is pure confession.
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_Our_ brightness and happiness air the brightness and happiness of faith; our cleanness is the cleanness of religious scruples.
The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884
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But wit you well there shall none attain it but by cleanness, that is pure confession.
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Thom Hartman thinks that Romney could bring a lot to the McCain ticket: money and "cleanness".
Mandatory evacuation of New Orleans ordered by Mayor Nagin 2008
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Thom Hartman thinks that Romney could bring a lot to the McCain ticket: money and "cleanness".
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This suffices for the Replies to the Objections: for the first two arguments refer to the first kind of cleanness; while the third refers to the perfect vision of God.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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