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uncleanenesse

uncleanenesse is the obsolete spelling of uncleanness.

Meaning of uncleanness

Noun

uncleanness (countable and uncountable, plural uncleannesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being unclean
    • [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, III. Essdras [1...
  2. (countable) The result or product of being unclean.

Forms of uncleanenesse

pluraluncleanenesses

Questions about uncleanenesse

What is uncleanenesse the obsolete spelling of?
Uncleanenesse is the obsolete spelling of uncleanness.

Words near uncleanenesse in the dictionary

  1. uncle-in-law
  2. unclean
  3. unclean hands
  4. uncleanable
  5. uncleaned
  6. uncleanenesse
  7. uncleaner
  8. uncleaness
  9. uncleanest
  10. uncleanlier
  11. uncleanliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncleanenesse (page history and authors); uncleanness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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