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Without moral defects
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cleanness
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Cleanness ( Middle English : Clannesse ) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl poet or Gawain poet , also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleanness \Clean"ness\, n. [AS. cl?nnes. See Clean .] The state or quality of being clean. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. --Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English clænnes "(moral) cleanness, purity, chastity;" see clean (adj.) + -ness . Meaning "absence of dirt or filth" is late 14c.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. moral purity; innocence.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities [ant: dirtiness ] without moral defects
Usage examples of cleanness.
Mary is handed over by her parents to the care of the High Priest at the Temple, she finds provided for her as companions the five maidens, Meditation, Contrition, Compassion, Cleanness and Fruition, while near by await her seven teachers, Discretion, Devotion, Dilection, Deliberation, Declaration, Determination and Divination, a goodly company of Doctors indeed.
After I had inspected her two rooms and her little kitchen, and had admired the cleanness which shone all around, Barberine asked me if I would like to see their small garden.
And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep: Well ought a priest ensample for to give, By his own cleanness, how his sheep should live.
The cleanness and the fasting of us freres Maketh that Christ accepteth our prayeres.
The old priests, who conducted the service of the Goddess, had received the daughter of Rameses with respect, and undertook to restore her to cleanness by degrees with the help of the water from the mountain-stream which watered the palm-grove of the Amalekites, of incense-burning, of pious sentences, and of a hundred other ceremonies.
Like the rest of the houses on the street, it was old but washed to pristine cleanness, and a pot of pink geraniums bloomed on the doorstep.
It affected his palate in a new way - with the purity and cleanness of water was combined the exhilaration of a sparkling wine, raising his spirits - but somehow the intoxication brought out his better nature, and not his lower.
As he passed up on to the roof and I followed him, the comparative cleanness of the air was most refreshing after the varied fumes of the staircase.