Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Foul or dirty.
- adj. Morally defiled; unchaste.
- adj. Ceremonially impure.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
- Ceremonially impure. Not free from ceremonial defilement: said of persons.
- Morally impure; foul with sin; wicked; evil; especially, lewd; unchaste.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
- adj. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.
- adj. Morally impure.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- adj. having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws
Examples
“Pork is described as "unclean" and therefore unfit for human consumption along with other types of meat, such as carrion, the carcass of dead animals Chapter 6, Verse 145.”
The Huffington Post: Engy Abdelkader: What's Pork Got To Do With It?
“I also find Karzai not to my liking, infected with a foreign education and with relatives living in unclean places.”
“Pope Benedict speaks of lepers - the "unclean" - and points out that leprosy can be a symbol for sin.”
“Oh, my friends, let us pray that we may love God better, and know His likeness more clearly; that we may be more ready to recognise, and admire, and welcome every, even the smallest trace of that likeness in any human being, remembering that it is the likeness of Christ, who was not merely The Teacher of all in every nation who fear God and work righteousness, but the Saviour who ate and drank with publicans and sinners: and then we shall be more careful how we call unclean what God Himself has cleansed with”
“Peter understandably refuses to eat such unclean things, only to be told by the heavenly voice that he should not call unclean what God has cleansed.”
The Bible's Teaching About Being Prepared To Set Aside The Bible's Teaching
“So sinful actions are always unclean, that is, not in accordance with God's design.”
“There's a doctrine in law called unclean hands, which means you can't benefit from your own wrongdoing.”
“The unclean were the leprosy, issues, &c.; not unclean, were such as this woman's infirmity, &c.”
“That is, 'over, or upon unclean spirits': which therefore are called unclean spirits that by a clearer antithesis they might be opposed to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of purity.”
“The covering being lifted from her eyes, her bonds were undone, and herself likened by the maker of sweet music, unto all that the Koran calls unclean, even unto the vilest of the vile, the pig, into the company of which she was relegated for all eternity.”
Lists
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Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
I also have a general Bible-word list.god, father, son, trinity, sacrament, knowledge, serpent, flood, evil, good, spirit, revelation and 118 more...
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I am : dirty
dirty, stained, grubby, tainted, speckled, tarnished, smeared, filthy, muddy, smudged, grimy, foul and 3 more...
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Uncle! Uncle!
Uncles, words or phrases with the letters u-n-c-l-e (in that order), and anything avuncular.
uncle, avuncular, Uncle Sam, The Man From U.N...., peduncle, avunculus, say uncle, avunculate, avunculism, patruus, avunculocal, nuncle and 22 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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SidneyW's Words
incredulous, abattoir, gibbonous, eldritch, stygian, vesture, unclean, opprobrious
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gangerh Uncle Ian! That's brilliant! Nov 20, 2009
yarb Of or pertaining to uncles. Nov 19, 2009