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unˈcleanness
[OE. unclǽnnes, f. unclǽne unclean a. Cf. cleanness.]
1. The quality or state of being morally or spiritually unclean; moral impurity; an instance of this.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xiii. 75 Se reccere sceal bion simle clæne on his ᵹeðohte, ðætte nan unclænnes hine ne besmite. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxiii. 25 Ᵹe synt innan fulle reaflaces and unclænnysse. a1100in Napier O.E. Glosses i. 4225 Lascivæ obscenitatis, wrænre unclænnysse. c1200Ormin 2168 Swa summ þatt laþe maȝȝdenn iss Þat sekeþþ unnclænnesse. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8949 Vor me ne miȝte hire neuere ise vnclannesse [v.r. vnclennysse] do ene. 1340Ayenb. 203 Uoule wordes þet wendeþ to ribaudye and to onclennesse. 1382Wyclif 2 Pet. ii. 20 Men forsakinge the defoulinges, or vnclennesses, of the world. 1411–2Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3724 Natheles eschued he þe taast Of vnclennesse, and kepte his body chaast. c1450J. Capgrave Life St. Aug. xxiv. 33 Sche defouled neuer hir lippis with no vnclennesse. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 90 b, Scurrilite or spekynge of fylthy wordes, vnclenness, moche speche or many wordes. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 340/2 Diuers of those..myghte haply fall into moste horrible vncleannesse. 1611Bible Ezek. xxxvi. 29, I wil also saue you from all your vncleannesses. 1643Milton Divorce 16 Let him not put her away for the meer surmise of Judaicall uncleannes. 1714Berkeley Serm. Wks. 1871 IV. 606 Their Sacred Rites were polluted with acts of uncleanness and debauchery. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. vii, There being no scandal equal to that of uncleanness. 1865C. J. Vaughan Plain Words iv. (1866) 70 Still is the living fountain open for all sin and all uncleanness.
2. Physical impurity; filthiness, foulness; squalor.
c950Rit. Eccl. Dunelm. (Surtees) 121 Svæ hvæd in hvsvm..þas yð eft astræᵹde beværle vnclænnisse [L. careat immunditia]. a1100in Napier O.E. Glosses i. 4455 Olidos squalores, fule unclænnessa. 1390Gower Conf. III. 100 The Splen doth him to lawhe and pleie, Whan al unclennesse is aweie. 1487Rolls of Parlt. VI. 391/1 To great hurt and disease of the Kyngs Leige People..goyng..in the said Stretis and Suburbes, and also grete unclenness of the same. 1534Act 26 Hen. VIII, c. 8 Vacant groundes..replenisshed with muche vncleanes & filth to the great annusance of the said inhabitantes. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. xii. xi. (1622) 172 The horse-men..were put to flight..by reason of the difficulties and vncleannesse of the place. 1663Cowley Ess. in Verse & Pr. viii, Yet the very sight of Uncleanness is loathsome to the Cleanly. |