Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being unclean.
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- noun uncountable The state of being
unclean - noun countable The result or product of being
unclean .
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- noun the state of being unsanitary
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Levitical law as to uncleanness is fully in force among the Kafirs, and they practise circumcision, but not until the age of puberty.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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It shall be a "fountain" ever flowing; not a laver needing constantly to be replenished with water, such as stood between the tabernacle and altar (Ex 30: 18). for sin ... uncleanness -- that is, judicial guilt and moral impurity.
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Those that wallow in uncleanness render themselves utterly unfit for communion with God, either in grace here or in glory hereafter, and become allied to unclean spirits, which are for ever separated from him; and then what portion, what inheritance, can they have with God?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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That uncleanness is a sin that forfeits all good, and shuts us out from the hope of it (v. 2): What portion of God is there from above?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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And uncleanness is a sin that does as much as any thing blind the understanding, sear the conscience, and keep people from pondering the path of life.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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The sin of uncleanness is contrary to the nature and design of our Christian calling: For God hath called us not unto uncleanness, but unto holiness, v. 7.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Their aversion to the flesh of the "unclean beast" is, on the contrary, of that peculiar character, resembling an instinctive antipathy, which the idea of uncleanness, when once it thoroughly sinks into the feelings, seems always to excite even in those whose personal habits are anything but scrupulously cleanly and of which the sentiment of religious impurity, so intense in the
On Liberty 2002
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The first is that the word uncleanness in v. 24 (akatharsia) as used in the New Testament always denotes, not ceremonial, but moral uncleanness, (Mt. 23: 37; Rom.
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The first is that the word uncleanness in v. 24 (akatharsia) as used in the New Testament always denotes, not ceremonial, but moral uncleanness, (Mt. 23: 37; Rom.
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The first is that the word uncleanness in v. 24 (akatharsia) as used in the New Testament always denotes, not ceremonial, but moral uncleanness, (Mt. 23: 37; Rom.
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