Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being naked; nudity; bareness; defenselessness; undisguisedness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of being naked.
- noun (Script.) The privy parts; the genitals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
naked .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind
- noun characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
- noun a bleak and desolate atmosphere
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Examples
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They might reach it either through losing the present body, in the act of death, and passing through a period of what he calls nakedness; or they might attain it by being
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868
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For those of us that are Christians have we considered that Jesus died on the cross in nakedness bearing the shame of our nakedness?
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
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But, today, such nakedness is conceit, based on labels and designer names.
New Link 2008
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For nakedness is both innocence and perversity, the province of the very young and the promiscuous, but not normal, and never unattached.
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But the same writer observed nevertheless that his forte was the portrayal of patriarchs: we identify Rowbotham with vigorous old age: the gnarled oak, boisterous in nakedness, and we wish, with all the imperfections of this actor, that the
Cast and Characters 2008
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The only marked difference the Rafess are fully clothed, nakedness is Haram in Islam, even in a splintered group of Rafaees.
The Rafaees v/s Naga Babas « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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More important than that though, is that your nakedness be not discovered thereon, because the word nakedness leads us right back to Genesis chapter three where Adam and Eve were found in the garden of Eden knowing for the first time that they were naked.
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More important than that though, is that your nakedness be not discovered thereon, because the word nakedness leads us right back to Genesis chapter three where Adam and Eve were found in the garden of Eden knowing for the first time that they were naked.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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If the nakedness is not that of a spouse or child, loss of appetite can be a side effect.
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In fact, more so, if the nakedness is an extremely fit Gerard Butler, and he’s yelling things and kicking people in the solar plexus.
WOMEN BE SHOPPIN 2007
brtom commented on the word nakedness
The innocence and nakedness are resumed—they are neither modest nor immodest. Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006