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The quality or condition of being foul.

The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.

That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 2 Chron. xxix. 5.

The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.

The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday.

Stain; foulness. [R.] Bacon.

The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity. The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. Taylor. To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. Dickens.

Foulness; filth. [Obs.] Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. Gov. of Tongue.

The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.