uncleannessn.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈkliːnnᵻs/,

/(ˌ)ʌŋˈkliːnnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˌənˈklinnᵻs/

Forms: see unclean adj. and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unclean adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < unclean adj. + -ness suffix. Compare cleanness n.

1. The quality or state of being morally or spiritually unclean; moral impurity; (sometimes) spec. sexual immorality. Also: a state in which a person is considered unclean for religious or cultural reasons; ritual impurity. Also occasionally as a count noun: an instance of moral or spiritual impurity (now archaic).

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > [noun]

uncleannesseOE

unpurenessa1425

uncleanliness1509

impurity1548

impureness1557

immundicity1559

sluttery1607

uncleansedness1622

immundity1870

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xiii. 75 Se reccere sceal bion simle clæne on his geðohte, ðætte nan unclænnes hine ne besmite ðonne he ða ðegnunga underfehð.

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 415 Lasciue obscenitatis : wrænre inmunditie, unclænnysse.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2168 Swa summ þatt laþe maȝȝdenn iss. Þatt sekeþþ unnclænnesse.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8949 Vor me ne miȝte hire neuere ise vnclannesse [a1425 Pepys vnclennysse] do ene.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. ii. 20 Men forsakinge the defoulinges, or vnclennesses, of the world.

a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 3724 Natheles eschued he þe taast Of vnclennesse, and kepte his body chaast.

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 33 Sche defouled neuer hir lippis with no vnclennesse.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFiiii Scurrilite, or spekyng of filthy wordes, vnclennes, moche speche or many wordes.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 340/2 Diuers of those..myghte haply fall into moste horrible vncleannesse.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 16 Let him not put her away for the meer surmise of Judaicall uncleannes.

1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. sig. C*2^v/1 What Christ did as he was God..he could not contract any ritual uncleanness by.

1714 G. Berkeley Serm. in Wks. (1871) IV. 606 Their Sacred Rites were polluted with acts of uncleanness and debauchery.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. vii. 46 There being no scandal equal to that of uncleanness.

1826 Relig. Monitor June 9 When the Lord..gave up the heathens to their uncleanness.

1865 C. J. Vaughan Plain Words (1866) iv. 70 Still is the living fountain open for all sin and all uncleanness.

1922 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 42 171 The man-slayer was everywhere considered unclean, and his impurity extended to his tribe. This uncleanness lasted for four days.

1937 Daily News (Huntingdon, Pa.) 22 Mar. 2/2 From time immemorial man has been familiar with the idea of uncleannesses which separate him from God.

2003 J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello (2004) iii. 85 Shame makes human beings of us, shame and uncleanness. Adam and Eve: the founding myth.

2. The state or condition of being physically unclean; physical impurity; filthiness; dirtiness. Also concrete: dirt, filth; contaminating or infected matter. Formerly also: †illness, disease (obsolete). In quot. OE¹ as a count noun.In quot. a1393 probably with punning reference to sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun]

foulnessOE

uncleannessOE

filthheadc1300

foulhead1340

filtha1425

filthiness?c1425

horynessc1425

uncleanliness1502

immundicity?1541

filthhood1582

dirtiness1607

slovenliness1617

muckiness1676

turpitude1684

muck1766

dirt1774

grot1971

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 428 Olidos squalores : fule, turpes, fetidos inmunditias, unclænnessa uel fracede.

OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xiii. 148 Sona swa he wæs mid þam gyrdele begyrd, eal seo unclænnysse [L. amentiam] fram him gewat, and him syþþan næfre seo adle ne eglode.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 474 The Splen doth him to lawhe and pleie, Whan al unclennesse is aweie.

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 89, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Unclēnnes(se Þe wounde schal be clensed of alle maner vnclennesse.

1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §9. m. 4 To great hurt and disease of the kynges liege people..goyng..in the seid stretis and suberbes, and also grete unclennes of the same.

1534 Act 26 Henry VIII c. 8 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 504 Vacant groundes..replenished with moche unclennes and filthe, to the greate annusance of the said inhabitantis.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. xi. 172 The horsemen..were put to flight..by reason of the difficulties and vncleannes of the place.

1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick i. vi. 12 Straine it [sc. manna] thorow a cloth, that all the vncleannesse might be separated.

a1667 A. Cowley Dangers of an Honest Man 134 in Wks. (1668) Yet the very sight of Uncleanness is loathsome to the Cleanly.

1798 L. Gillespie Advice to Commanders & Officers Introd. p. vii Uncleanness with regard to clothing, bedding, and mens persons.

1823 School for Sisters xiv. 175 She shrunk from their personal uncleanness, and thanked heaven that in her own abode she could escape from filth.

1855 J. H. Ingraham Prince of House of David xxxi. 355 John ran to him, and wiped the blood and uncleanness from his lips, and cheeks, and beard.

1932 L. P. Hunter Girl Today Woman Tomorrow ii. 55 An odor of uncleanness anywhere is very offensive and often the cause of a girl's unpopularity.

2005 L. Leblanc Pretty in Punk ii. 62 One faction of gutter punks..takes this uncleanness to an extreme, viewing regular bathing as a bourgeois ritual.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	uncleanness
释义	uncleannessn. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈkliːnnᵻs/, /(ˌ)ʌŋˈkliːnnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈklinnᵻs/ Forms: see unclean adj. and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unclean adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < unclean adj. + -ness suffix. Compare cleanness n. 1. The quality or state of being morally or spiritually unclean; moral impurity; (sometimes) spec. sexual immorality. Also: a state in which a person is considered unclean for religious or cultural reasons; ritual impurity. Also occasionally as a count noun: an instance of moral or spiritual impurity (now archaic). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > [noun] uncleannesseOE unpurenessa1425 uncleanliness1509 impurity1548 impureness1557 immundicity1559 sluttery1607 uncleansedness1622 immundity1870 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xiii. 75 Se reccere sceal bion simle clæne on his geðohte, ðætte nan unclænnes hine ne besmite ðonne he ða ðegnunga underfehð. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 415 Lasciue obscenitatis : wrænre inmunditie, unclænnysse. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2168 Swa summ þatt laþe maȝȝdenn iss. Þatt sekeþþ unnclænnesse. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8949 Vor me ne miȝte hire neuere ise vnclannesse [a1425 Pepys vnclennysse] do ene. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. ii. 20 Men forsakinge the defoulinges, or vnclennesses, of the world. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 3724 Natheles eschued he þe taast Of vnclennesse, and kepte his body chaast. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 33 Sche defouled neuer hir lippis with no vnclennesse. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFiiii Scurrilite, or spekyng of filthy wordes, vnclennes, moche speche or many wordes. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 340/2 Diuers of those..myghte haply fall into moste horrible vncleannesse. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 16 Let him not put her away for the meer surmise of Judaicall uncleannes. 1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. sig. C2^v/1 What Christ did as he was God..he could not contract any ritual uncleanness by. 1714 G. Berkeley Serm.* in Wks. (1871) IV. 606 Their Sacred Rites were polluted with acts of uncleanness and debauchery. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. vii. 46 There being no scandal equal to that of uncleanness. 1826 Relig. Monitor June 9 When the Lord..gave up the heathens to their uncleanness. 1865 C. J. Vaughan Plain Words (1866) iv. 70 Still is the living fountain open for all sin and all uncleanness. 1922 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 42 171 The man-slayer was everywhere considered unclean, and his impurity extended to his tribe. This uncleanness lasted for four days. 1937 Daily News (Huntingdon, Pa.) 22 Mar. 2/2 From time immemorial man has been familiar with the idea of uncleannesses which separate him from God. 2003 J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello (2004) iii. 85 Shame makes human beings of us, shame and uncleanness. Adam and Eve: the founding myth. 2. The state or condition of being physically unclean; physical impurity; filthiness; dirtiness. Also concrete: dirt, filth; contaminating or infected matter. Formerly also: †illness, disease (obsolete). In quot. OE¹ as a count noun.In quot. a1393 probably with punning reference to sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] foulnessOE uncleannessOE filthheadc1300 foulhead1340 filtha1425 filthiness?c1425 horynessc1425 uncleanliness1502 immundicity?1541 filthhood1582 dirtiness1607 slovenliness1617 muckiness1676 turpitude1684 muck1766 dirt1774 grot1971 OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 428 Olidos squalores : fule, turpes, fetidos inmunditias, unclænnessa uel fracede. OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xiii. 148 Sona swa he wæs mid þam gyrdele begyrd, eal seo unclænnysse [L. amentiam] fram him gewat, and him syþþan næfre seo adle ne eglode. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 474 The Splen doth him to lawhe and pleie, Whan al unclennesse is aweie. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 89, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Unclēnnes(se Þe wounde schal be clensed of alle maner vnclennesse. 1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §9. m. 4 To great hurt and disease of the kynges liege people..goyng..in the seid stretis and suberbes, and also grete unclennes of the same. 1534 Act 26 Henry VIII c. 8 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 504 Vacant groundes..replenished with moche unclennes and filthe, to the greate annusance of the said inhabitantis. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. xi. 172 The horsemen..were put to flight..by reason of the difficulties and vncleannes of the place. 1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick i. vi. 12 Straine it [sc. manna] thorow a cloth, that all the vncleannesse might be separated. a1667 A. Cowley Dangers of an Honest Man 134 in Wks. (1668) Yet the very sight of Uncleanness is loathsome to the Cleanly. 1798 L. Gillespie Advice to Commanders & Officers Introd. p. vii Uncleanness with regard to clothing, bedding, and mens persons. 1823 School for Sisters xiv. 175 She shrunk from their personal uncleanness, and thanked heaven that in her own abode she could escape from filth. 1855 J. H. Ingraham Prince of House of David xxxi. 355 John ran to him, and wiped the blood and uncleanness from his lips, and cheeks, and beard. 1932 L. P. Hunter Girl Today Woman Tomorrow ii. 55 An odor of uncleanness anywhere is very offensive and often the cause of a girl's unpopularity. 2005 L. Leblanc Pretty in Punk ii. 62 One faction of gutter punks..takes this uncleanness to an extreme, viewing regular bathing as a bourgeois ritual. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE
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