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un-clǽnness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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un-clǽnness, e; f.
in a physical sense, uncleanness, impurity, foulness, squalor
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  • Suǽ huæd in húsum ðás ýð eft ástrægde beuærle unclǽnnisse

    quicquid in domibus haec unda resperserit careat inmunditia,

    • Rtl. 121, 36.
  • Fúle unclǽnnessa

    olidos (ergastulorum) squalores,

    • Hpt. Gl. 509, 75.
in a moral sense, uncleanness, impurity, obscenity
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  • Láð unclǽnnys

    detestanda obscenitas,

    • Hpt. Gl. 506, 74.
  • Se reccere sceal beón simle clǽne on his geðóhte, ðætte nán unclǽnnes ( immunditia ) hine ne besmíte,

    • Past. 13
    • ;
    • S. 75, 20: Rtl. 97, 29.
  • Wrǽnre unclǽnnysse

    lascivae obscenitatis,

    • Hpt. Gl. 505, 38.
  • Hwá unclǽnnisse líf álifde,

    • Exon. Th. 448, 31
    • ;
    • Dóm. 62.
  • Unclǽnnysse

    spurcitia,

    • Hpt. Gl. 439, 8.
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v.  un-clǽne.
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