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filthiness|ˈfɪlθɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The condition of being filthy.
1. In physical sense: Foulness, uncleanliness.
a1500Wycket (1828) 15 The puttynge awaye of fylthenes of the fleshe. 1558Bp. Watson Sev. Sacram. xiii. 78 The prieste washeth his handes, that no outward filthynes should seclude hym from the communion. 1611Bible 2 Macc. ix. 9 The filthinesse of his smell was noysome to all his army.
†b. concr. Filth; spec. matter, pus. Obs.
1531Tindale Exp. 1 John (1537) 8 Y⊇ water once in the yeare casteth al fylthynesse unto the sydes of it. 1580Baret Alv. F 511 The matter, or filthinesse that commeth out of a bile. 1611Bible Isa. xxviii. 8 All tables are full of vomite and filthinesse. 1649Dryden Upon Death of Ld. Hastings 54 Was there no milder way but the Small Pox, The very Filth'ness of Pandora's Box?
2. Moral corruption or pollution; obscenity; vileness, wickedness.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 185 b, Than the deformite & fylthynes of synne is taken away. 1684Contempl. State of Man ii. x. (1699) 246 This deformity and filthiness of sin. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 138 A Woman that seems to delight in Filthiness. 1834Lytton Pompeii i. vi, Men reeking with all the filthiness of vice. |