Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Foul or dirty.
- adjective Morally defiled.
- adjective Ceremonially impure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
- Ceremonially impure.
- Morally impure; foul with sin; wicked; evil; especially, lewd; unchaste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
- adjective Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.
- adjective Morally impure.
- adjective (Script.) those which the Israelites were forbidden to use for food.
- adjective (Script.) a wicked spirit; a demon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
dirty ,soiled orfoul - adjective not
moral orchaste - adjective
ritually orceremonially impure orunfit
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- adjective having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws
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Examples
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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.
Engy Abdelkader: What's Pork Got To Do With It? Engy Abdelkader 2011
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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.
Engy Abdelkader: What's Pork Got To Do With It? Engy Abdelkader 2011
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I also find Karzai not to my liking, infected with a foreign education and with relatives living in unclean places.
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Pope Benedict speaks of lepers - the "unclean" - and points out that leprosy can be a symbol for sin.
ProLifeBlogs 2009
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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
Sermons for the Times Charles Kingsley 1847
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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 James F. McGrath 2009
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So sinful actions are always unclean, that is, not in accordance with God's design.
Calling it what it is--condescension Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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There's a doctrine in law called unclean hands, which means you can't benefit from your own wrongdoing.
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The unclean were the leprosy, issues, &c.; not unclean, were such as this woman's infirmity, &c.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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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.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
yarb commented on the word unclean
Of or pertaining to uncles.
November 20, 2009
gangerh commented on the word unclean
Uncle Ian! That's brilliant!
November 20, 2009