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  • adjective Not cleansed

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Examples

  • That means the U.S. financial system will remain burdened with uncleansed balance sheets that penalize future lending and economic growth.

    Recession Is Inevitable 2008

  • How wild thy look from remaining so long uncleansed!

    Orestes 2008

  • As to the second, it appears to have been taken down for copyright reasons or similar, so my palate remains uncleansed.

    In. De. F-ing. SCRIBABLE. | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

  • How wild thy look from remaining so long uncleansed!

    Orestes 2008

  • Such transgressions exposed the community's food supply to grave peril, for uncleansed ndzhaka would "close the sky" (kupfala tilo), "seize the rain" (kukhoma mpfula) and cause drought that would "kill the land" (kudlaya tiko).

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • He had been very smooth: in hindsight, too smooth, and he lacked the uncleansed cast of someone who had survived years in correctional warehouses.

    The Big Scam Paul Lindsay 2005

  • He'll have to stomach the invasion of his small little Baraboo in Sauk County as the uncleansed, the unshaven, the Communists, the Marxists, and the all out who-knows-what come for "Fighting Bob Fest."

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • A model farm! where the house stands like a fungus in a muckheap, chambers for men horses, oxen, and swine, cleansed and uncleansed, all contiguous to one another!

    Walden 2004

  • The church defiled, the cloisters an uncleansed stable, dortoir and frater stripped of woodwork to feed fires, all provisions taken away, all those valuables we had no time or warning to remove, stolen.

    The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

  • Whatever we do ourselves in answer unto our convictions is a covering, not a cleansing; and if we die in this condition, unwashed, uncleansed, unpurified, it is utterly impossible that ever we should be admitted into the blessed presence of the holy God, Rev. xxi.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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