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cleanliness

[adj. klen-lee; adv. kleen-lee] Origin

clean·ly

[adj. klen-lee; adv. kleen-lee] adjective, -li·er, -li·est, adverb
adjective
1.
personally neat; careful to keep or make clean: The cat is by nature a cleanly animal.
2.
habitually kept clean.
3.
Obsolete. cleansing; making clean.
adverb
4.
in a clean manner.

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Cleanliness is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English clenlich(e), Old English clǣnlīc, equivalent to clǣne clean + -līc -ly

clean·li·ness [klen-lee-nis] , noun

cleanliness, cleanness.
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cleanly
 
adv
1.  in a fair manner
2.  easily or smoothly: the screw went into the wood cleanly
 
adj , -lier, -liest
3.  habitually clean or neat
 
cleanlily
 
adv
 
cleanliness
 
n

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cleanliness
1430, from cleanly (see clean).
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"Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness." [John Wesley, Sermon "On Dress," c.1791]
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