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unˈwholesomeness
[f. prec. + -ness.]
1. Unsound or impaired health; unhealthiness.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xiii. 68 Thanne thou etist hony aloon... And this feding schal turn into thin vnhoolsumnes.
2. Unhealthy character (of locality, climate, air, etc.); insalubrity, unhealthfulness.
a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 377 By reason of y⊇ vnholsomnes of the countre. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 396 The vnwholesomnesse of the aire, and corruption of the waters in the hote time of the yeere. 1623in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 181 The unholsomnes of this clymeatt. 1626Bacon Sylva §777 The Wholesomenesse or Vnwholesomenesse, as well of Seasons, as of the Seats of Dwellings. 1697Walsh Life Virgil ⁋2 in Dryden Virgil, The Unwholsomness of his Native Air. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. l. 65/1 The damps..will come to you with double..unwholsomness. 1758in Dodsley Fug. Pieces (1761) II. 84 The Unwholesomeness of the Rust and Verdegrease Suffusions. a1843Southey Common-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. (1849) 245/2 In the unwholesomeness of this shade the tree..could not possibly flourish. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 42/1 The unwholesomeness of sewage.
3. The state or quality of being unwholesome as, or unfit for, food, etc.
1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 10 §1 The unholsomenes of the drincke..made thereof. 1587Golding De Mornay xiv. 249 Iudging..of the wholsomnes or vnwholsomnes of foode by the taste thereof. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 20 The unwholesomenesse of his dyet. 1651Stanley Poems 37 Th' unwholsomnesse of fruit. 1863N. & Q. 3rd Ser. IV. 249 The Scottish objection to eels as an article of food is mainly due to their supposed unwholesomeness.
4. Lack of moral wholesomeness; viciousness.
1881Sat. Rev. 15 Jan. 88/2 Happily its unwholesomeness is often lessened by the folly of the language into which the author falls. 1897Advance (Chicago) 25 Mar. 389/1 The absence of [disapprobation of sinners]..is a sure sign of unwholesomeness and decay. |