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unˈholiness
[un-1 12.]
1. The quality of being unholy; lack of holiness or sanctity.
1534More Treat. Passion ii. Wks. 1311/2 The vyces of vicious folke in Christes church, can not lette, but that hys catholike church..is for their vnholynes, his holy catholyke churche. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxiv. §2 She is not..in respect of any vnholinesse forbidden entrance into the Church. 1645Milton Tetrach. 36 Where an unfit mariage administers continual cause of hatred and distemper, there..cannot choose but much unholines abide. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 195 Adam's holiness was as natural..to him as any way of unholiness can be natural..to us. 1845Corrie in Encycl. Metrop. II. 880/1 All that blindness of heart, all that unholiness of affections,..which issue in overt acts of sin. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. i. 11 Let us..beware that in us unholiness do not cloud the spiritual eye.
2. Applied to the Pope: cf. holiness 2.
1682G. Topham Rome's Tradit. 204 No sooner did the news of that bloody Butchery arrive his Unholiness [Gregory XIII], but [etc.]. |