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Unwashen

Unwashen \Un*wash"en\, a. Not washed. [Archaic] ``To eat with unwashen hands.''
--Matt. xv. 20.

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unwashen

a. (obsolete form of unwashed English)

Usage examples of "unwashen".

Selecting a particularly massive slice, she proceeded to take it from the pan with her fingers in order to set it upon a piece of tin, from which she had first removed the more evident traces of the morning meal with her constant companion, the ancient and unwashen vatdoek.

Then, as an overflow of water from the creases of his cap reached his unwashen neck, he broke into profanity about the weather, concluding with a malediction on the unhappy terrier, who showed signs of again entangling his lead.

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.