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unlaving

unlaving adjective: not washing; not bathing.

Adjective

unlaving (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Not washing; not bathing.
    • The poem concluded, those who took only the cold bath began to undress; they […] withdrew into that graceful and circular building which yet exists, to shame the unlaving posterity of the south.1860, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Historical Romances, volume 13, page 100
    • Together with a number of allied plants, the peasants in the Holy Land burn it for exportation still; and the soap used by the unlaving Greeks and Egyptians is nearly all of it imported from Nablus — the ancient Shechem of the Bible — in Palestine.1885, Bible Flowers and Flower Lore, page 130

Origin of unlaving

From un- + laving.

Questions about unlaving

What does unlaving mean?
Unlaving means not washing; not bathing.
What part of speech is unlaving?
Unlaving is an adjective.

Words near unlaving in the dictionary

  1. unlaundered
  2. unlaureled
  3. unlaurelled
  4. unlavaged
  5. unlaved
  6. unlaving
  7. unlavish
  8. unlavished
  9. unlavishly
  10. unlaw
  11. unlawed

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