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noun

Filthiness n.

The state of being filthy. "Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit."

That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. "Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Filthiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... King's touch is sovereign for the corruption and incipient putrefaction of our sin; and there is no power in heaven or earth that will make a man clean except the power of Jesus Christ. It is either Jesus Christ or filthiness. ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... Satan to rob her of her maiden honour; and she said that Satan had, without doubt, then defiled her when she could no longer heal the cattle, and when they all died. Hereupon my child said nought, save that she cast down her eyes and blushed deep, for shame at such filthiness; and to the other blasphemous slander which the old hag uttered with many tears, namely, that my daughter had given up her (Lizzie's) husband, body and soul, to Satan, she answered as she had done before. But when the old ...

— The Amber Witch • Wilhelm Meinhold

... from the adult who may have contracted them. The cleansing efficacy of Baptism was clearly foreshadowed by the prophet Ezechiel in these words: "I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness. And I will give you a new heart and will put a new ...

— The Faith of Our Fathers • James Cardinal Gibbons

... resist the evolution of a proper sanitary theory. Out of the Orient had been poured into the thinking of western Europe the theological idea that the abasement of man adds to the glory of God; that indignity to the body may secure salvation to the soul; hence, that cleanliness betokens pride and filthiness humility. Living in filth was regarded by great numbers of holy men, who set an example to the Church and to society, as an evidence of sanctity. St. Jerome and the Breviary of the Roman Church dwell with unction on the fact that St. Hilarion lived his whole life long in utter physical ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... trace a wise and honest and beneficent design all through. He may try to console himself by saying that the disasters of good people, after all, are the exceptions, and that, as a rule, courage and purity of heart are rewarded, while cowardice and filthiness are punished. But what room is there for exceptions in a world governed by God Whom we must believe to be all-powerful, all-just, and all-loving? It is the wilful sin of man, says the moralist, that has brought these hard things upon him. But that is no answer, for the dark ...

— At Large • Arthur Christopher Benson

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