unholinessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈhəʊlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈhoʊlinᵻs/ 1. The quality of being unholy; lack of holiness or sanctity.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > unholiness > [noun]
unholiness1534
unblessedness1549
unsanctifiedness1634
unsanctitya1639
unsanctificationa1684
unhallowedness1899
1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1311/2 The vyces of vicious folke in Christes church, can not lette, but that hys catholike church..is for their vnholynes, his holy catholyke churche.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxiv. 218 Shee is not..in respect of any vnholinesse forbidden entrance into the Church.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 36 Where an unfit mariage administers continual cause of hatred and distemper, there..cannot choose but much unholines abide.
1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 280 Adam's holiness was as natural..to him, as any way of unholiness can be natural..to us.
a1832 G. E. Corrie Theol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 880/1 All that blindness of heart, all that unholiness of affections,..which issue in overt acts of sin.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. i. 11 Let us..beware that in us unholiness do not cloud the spiritual eye.
2. Applied to the Pope: cf. holiness n. 2.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]
popeeOE
apostoilec1275
vicary1303
vicar1340
bridge maker1341
Antichristc1370
vicar generalc1386
Holy Fatherc1400
servant of the servants of Godc1405
His Holy Fatherhood?a1425
universal bishopc1475
holiness1502
harlot1535
papa1555
Apostolic seat1560
vicegerent1572
man of Rome1581
pontiff1583
bullman1588
apostolicship1599
Pontifex Maximus1610
infallibleship1613
sanctity1633
popeship1641
decretaliarch1656
blessedness1670
Holy seata1674
infallibilityship1679
pontifexa1680
holyshipc1680
unholiness1682
His Infallibility1834
Pape1927
1682 G. Topham Rome's Trad. 204 No sooner did the news of that bloody Butchery arrive his Unholiness [Gregory XIII], but [etc.].
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