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cleanliness

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Word definitions for cleanliness in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Always those twin concerns: cleanliness and efficiency. ▪ Improved cleanliness of young children can reduce the nasal and ocular discharges that constitute a major reservoir of infectious material. ▪ In general the principles ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cleanliness is both the abstract state of being clean and free from dirt , and the process of achieving and maintaining that state. Cleanliness may be wed with a moral quality, as indicated by the aphorism "cleanliness is next to godliness ", and may be ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections [ant: uncleanliness ] diligence in keeping clean [ant: uncleanliness ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from cleanly + -ness .\n\nCleanliness is indeed next to godliness. [John Wesley, Sermon "On Dress," c.1791]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleanliness \Clean"li*ness\ (kl[e^]n"l[i^]*n[e^]s), n. [From Cleanly .] State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. --Swift.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene

Usage examples of cleanliness.

Who can sense the spiritual uncleanness of adultery except one who is in the cleanliness of chastity?

The treatment of this disease should consist in rest for the hip-joint, cleanliness of the person and plenty of fresh air and light, a nutritious diet and the use of tonics and sustaining alterative, or blood-cleansing medicines.

To this cause perhaps, united to their frequent bathing and extreme cleanliness, is ascribable, in a great measure, the marvellous purity and smoothness of skin exhibited by the natives in general.

We must have cleanliness, asepsis if possible, and an orderly technique.

Many persons think because they daily bathe the face, neck, and hands, dress the hair becomingly and remove the dirt from their clothing that the height of cleanliness has been reached.

I tried to satisfy my wishes, she opposed some resistance, but a double crown of six francs made her obedient, and finding that her only fault was a complete absence of cleanliness, I began to wash her with my own hands.

I been able to give an idea of the extreme antiquity, the perfect cleanliness, nor the vibrating song of the cicalas that seems to have been stored away within it, in its parched-up fibres, during hundreds of summers.

Bettina, seated on my bed, carried too far her love for cleanliness, and her curiosity caused me such intense voluptuousness that the feeling did not stop until it could be carried no further.

But this visible darkness did not prevent me from remarking that the countess was wrapped up in an old tattered gown, and that her chemise did not shine by its cleanliness.

THE CAUSES of stomatitis, in nursing infants, are unhealthy milk, or effete matter, which, for lack of proper care and cleanliness, accumulates upon the nipple.

I had just entered life, and I had no knowledge of any other place but the house in which I had been born, in which I had been brought up, and in which I had always seen cleanliness and honest comfort.

Heather was awed by the cleanliness and flawless routine maintained by Hatti and Aunt Ruth.

They dragged themselves up out of the karez and sprawled on the earth, drawing great breaths of the fresh air, which was sweet, with the wild cleanliness of the sand, into their lungs.

He was a man of singularly penurious habits, allowing himself to be in want of necessary food, and neglecting cleanliness.

Then I was painfully sensible of my poverty because it compelled me to let Elsje live in the midst of these often unclean and unmannerly people, in the close steamer atmosphere surrounded by sick people, in the sleeping quarters separated only by curtains, with the primitive washing accommodations and the lack of everything that I would so gladly have given her beauty, cleanliness, comfort.