cleanness

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noun
  1. the state or quality of having clean or trim lines: the cleanness of the aircraft’s design.

  2. the state or quality of being gracefully spare, or forceful and simple: the author’s cleanness of style and expression.

  1. the quality or state of being clean and neat; cleanliness:the cleanness of the air.

Origin of cleanness

1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English clennesse, clennes, see origin at clean, -ness

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How to use cleanness in a sentence

  • So from thence home, where my house of office was emptying, and I find they will do, it with much more cleanness than I expected.

  • We were surprised at the cleanness and neatness of the building, and at the large number of people within it.

  • What joy when he won his first happy high dive—into cleanness leaping with keen lithe grace.

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  • cleanness, however, seems to come under temperance, for this it is which precludes bodily defilement.

  • Temperance indeed worketh cleanness, but this has not the ratio of sanctity except it be referred to God.