drossinessn.
/ˈdrɒsɪnɪs/ The quality or condition of being drossy.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > polluted or defiled condition
sulliedness1571
impurity1598
defiledness1607
dregginess1608
drossiness1638
feculency1651
feculence1733
branfulness1879
1638 F. Rous Heavenly Acad. ix. 151 Purge thy soule from carnall drossinesse.
a1662 P. Heylyn Cosmographie (1682) iv. i. 60/2 The Myrrha of these parts had the name of Barbara, from the drossiness and coarseness of it.
a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 275 (R.) To refine us from our earthly drossiness.
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