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15 words match “LEANNESS”

LEANNESS n.
The condition or quality of being lean.
CLEANNESS n. 2 definitions
The state or quality of being clean.
DEFILEMENT n.
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.
EMACIATION n.
The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
IMMUNDICITY n.
Uncleanness; filthness. [R.] W. Montagu.
LUSTRATION n.
ch cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
MACILENCY n.
Leanness.[Obs.] Sandys.
MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS n.
The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
POLLUTION n.
t of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.
PURITY n.
Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday.
SPARENESS n.
The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.
VIRULENT a.
venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott.
WHITE v.
Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness. Matt. xxiii. 27. So as no fuller on earth can white them. Mark. ix. 3.
WHITENESS n.
Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness. He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. Byron.
WITHAL prep.
e in which it stands. [Obs.] This diamond he greets your wife withal. Shak. Whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal. Lev. v. 3.