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uncleaness

uncleaness is the rare form 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.

Origin of uncleaness

From unclean + -ness.

Questions about uncleaness

What is uncleaness the rare form of?
Uncleaness is the rare form of uncleanness.

Words near uncleaness in the dictionary

  1. unclean hands
  2. uncleanable
  3. uncleaned
  4. uncleanenesse
  5. uncleaner
  6. uncleaness
  7. uncleanest
  8. uncleanlier
  9. uncleanliest
  10. uncleanlily
  11. uncleanliness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncleaness (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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