Cleanness

The poems called "Cleanness" and "Patience," retell incidents of biblical history for a definitely didactic purpose, but even these are frequently lifted into the region of imaginative literature by the author's power of graphic description.

The Pearl Sophie Jewett

I think it's just an effect of the "Cleanness" of Chrome that makes it seem to fast.

Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

Long before Milton, for example, one of the oldest known, if anonymous, poems in English literature called itself “Cleanness,” and it took the connection between physical and spiritual purity to the limit: cleanness was a reference to being clean of sin, whereas sin is figured as a spot or a stain.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

Long before Milton, for example, one of the oldest known, if anonymous, poems in English literature called itself “Cleanness,” and it took the connection between physical and spiritual purity to the limit: cleanness was a reference to being clean of sin, whereas sin is figured as a spot or a stain.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

I doubt we'd much read Cleanness and Patience if they weren't in the Pearl manuscript.

On Literary Canonization Richard Nokes 2006

Cleanness of the Camp and the Health, and Cleanness of the soldiers.

John Adams diary 47, 13 February 1778 - 26 April 1779 1961

QUOTATION: Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Quotations 1919

_Cleanness_ indeed is necessary if a man's mind is to be applied to God.

On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907

Cleanness, however, seems to come under temperance, for this it is which precludes bodily defilement.

On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907

_Cleanness of heart_, three things keep: one is, watchful thought and stable about GOD.

The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901