How To Use Uncleanness In A Sentence

  • In speaking of the properties of lead, the old English Bartholomew says: "Of uncleanness of impure brimstone, lead hath a manner of neshness, and smircheth his hand who toucheth it ... a man may wipe off the uncleanness, but always it is lead, although it seemeth silver. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
  • The grinning jackanapes in Number 10 must not be allowed to extinguish Britain's liberties: he and the Great Uncleanness that is New Labour must be evicted from power.
  • With great simplicity and godly sincerity: Our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile, v. 3. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • By reason of its abounding _Sulphur_, which is therein; for I find no fluxibleness or fusibleness in any thing saving in _Sulphur_, _Mercury_ and _Arsenick_, and all these three are in _Saturn_; so that _Saturn_ is quickly fluxible, but all these three are cleansed with it from their uncleanness. Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.
  • Secondly, Because the example of Christ teaches us so much; for he washed his disciples 'feet before he admitted them to eat of this supper; signifying how thou shouldst lay aside all impureness of heart, and uncleanness of life, and be furnished with humility and charity, before thou presumest to taste of this holy supper (John xiii. The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
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  • Sterne, and Swift, and their uncleanness rarely attains the perfection of Alcofribas Naiser, "divin maitre et atroce cochon. Arabian nights. English
  • With the sins of uncleanness the apostle here, as in the preceding chapter, v. 19, connects pleonexia, covetousness. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
  • But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government.
  • And what these are he himself explains: "Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence; and covetousness, which is idolatry. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • ¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things 'sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them. Colossians 3.
  • Israelites with a profound reverence for holy things; and nothing was more suited to this purpose than to debar from the tabernacle all who were polluted by any kind of uncleanness, ceremonial as well as natural, mental as well as physical. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Aristotle saith that of brimstone that is boisterous and not swiftly pured, but troublous and thick, and of quicksilver, the substance of lead is gendered, and is gendered in mineral places; so of uncleanness of impure brimstone lead hath a manner of neshness, and smircheth his hand that toucheth it. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
  • 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • The apostle takes this for granted: Seeing you have, &c. To purify the soul supposes some great uncleanness and defilement which had polluted it, and that this defilement is removed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Being past hope," or despairing, is the reading of the Vulgate; though not so well supported as English Version reading, "past feeling," which includes the absence of hope (Jer 2: 25; 18: 12). given themselves over -- In Ro 1: 24 it is, "God gave them up to uncleanness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • By lust the apostle here means, not that particular inordination or vice that relates to the uncleanness of the flesh; but that general stock of corruption that possesses the whole soul through all its respective faculties. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
  • The cutting off the hair being a recognized sign of uncleanness (Le 14: 8, 9), its unpolled luxuriance was a symbol of the purity he professed. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • We are not to strive, become impatient with ourselves, or grow angry or despairing when we find we are bound by some uncleanness.
  • Cassian himself dwells on the horrible liability of the monks to the principal vices which infest human nature — gluttony, uncleanness, avarice, anger, vainglory, pride — above all, that despairing and unaccountable melancholy which they call acedia, and describe as “the demon that walketh in the noonday.” Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • Tabernacle; and first, the holy place, which the priests daily entered and which is called in verse 16 'the tent of meeting,' and next, the altar of burnt offering in the outer court, are in like manner sprinkled seven times with the blood, to 'hallow' them 'from the uncleanness of the children of Israel' (verse 19). Expositions of Holy Scripture
  • The ceremonial inferiority or uncleanness in consumable goods due to "commonness," or in other words to their slight cost of production, has been taken very seriously by many persons. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
  • Lawless insolence, and wanton caprice" [Trench]. to work all uncleanness -- The Greek implies, "with a deliberate view to the working (as if it were their work or business, not a mere accidental fall into sin) of uncleanness of every kind." with greediness -- Greek, "in greediness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The word for abomination here is tô ‛ êbah, which is not the word often used for ritual uncleanness, but is often used for sexual sin, in particular sexual sins and including sodomy. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • In the latter expression the word for "hand," kaph, signifies "the palm of the hand," consequently, not even hidden uncleanness within the hand, -- therefore complete innocency. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

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