Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An insanitary condition; lack of proper sanitary arrangements.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.

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  • noun Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ sanitation

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Examples

  • Examinations into the death rate in temperate climates would show that exposure was a relatively minor cause of death whereas insanitation was a major cause.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • The question is now to make of the existing Indian population model citizens, and if the Government and the Indian settlers cooperate, it is not at all impossible to set a better tone, and create a healthy Indian public opinion that would not tolerate any insanitation or ugliness.

    PART IV 1927

  • The insanitation of their dwellings, their rough diet, and frequent riotings in wine, opium and other evils, are quickly playing havoc in their ranks, giving the strong the opportunity of enriching themselves at the expense of the weak, with frequent fighting about the division of land.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • To walk across China, over roads acknowledgedly worse than are met with in any civilized country in the two hemispheres, and having accommodation unequalled for crudeness and insanitation, is not easy.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • The second point raised in the cablegram refers to a magisterial judgment, and it means that Indians as Indians may be declared as undesirable, not on ground of insanitation or immorality, but because they compete with the European traders to their detriment.

    37. INTERVIEW TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OF INDIA, NOVEMBER 1, 1919 1919

  • Filth and insanitation, immorality and crime, were fostered by overcrowding in ill-built urban areas.

    Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • During all these centuries there was undoubtedly a very high birth-rate, yet infant mortality, war, famine, insanitation, contagious diseases of many and virulent kinds, tended, as far as we can see, to keep the population almost or quite stationary, [30] and so ruinous

    Little Essays of Love and Virtue Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The god of dirt and insanitation carried away the unneeded residue left by famine.

    India's Problem, Krishna or Christ 1881

  • NELLORE: In a move to improve sanitation and control viral fevers in the city, officials of Municipal Corporation of Nellore (MCN) prepared to serve notices to the owners of vacant lands as the abandoned places are causing insanitation and creating mosquito menace.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • NELLORE: In a move to improve sanitation and control viral fevers in the city, officials of Municipal Corporation of Nellore (MCN) prepared to serve notices to the owners of vacant lands as the abandoned places are causing insanitation and creating mosquito menace.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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