单词 | unclean, unclean |
释义 | > as lemmasunclean, unclean Usually reduplicated, as unclean, unclean. In biblical use, or with allusion to this: the cry of a leper, used to alert others to his or her presence (now historical). Hence in figurative and similative contexts: used to indicate that a person, course of action, or state of affairs is undesirable, reprehensible, or morally corrupt.In biblical terms, those who had been diagnosed as lepers by the priest were required to separate themselves from the community as being ritually unclean, after Leviticus 13:45: see quot. 1568. (Earlier translations of the Bible do not use the phrase unclean, unclean: cf. the same passage in quot. a1382 at sense A. 2a). [After Hebrew ṭāmē unclean, ritually impure, defiled.] ΚΠ 1568 Bible (Bishops') Lev. xiii. 45 The leper in whom the plague is, shal haue his clothes rent, & his head bare,..and shall crye: vncleane, vncleane [Heb. ṭāmē! ṭāmē!]. 1618 N. Byfield Paterne Wholsome Words ix. 110 It should worke in wicked men a feruent desire of remission, and constant indeuour in the confession of sinne, crying out daily with the leper, vncleane, vncleane. 1667 J. Janeway Heaven upon Earth 183 He made full account that he was pure, but now he cries out unclean, unclean. 1781 J. Kershaw Methodist ii. 20 In vain can Man his heart and hands wash clean; when he's the height of self-perfection seen, his God pronounces him, unclean! unclean! 1859 Christian Repository Nov. 808 You would have seen him cover his upper lip and again cry Unclean! Unclean! Unclean!—to warn you not to come too near him, lest even the wind should blow contagion from his leprous skin. 1909 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 30 230 The chief penitent is the editor, who cries Unclean! Unclean! in almost every number by reason of the typographical and other errors that escape. 1954 Times 18 Feb. 10/1 Leper islands, leper squints in churches,..and above all voices crying ‘unclean’, and the sound of a bell. 2010 Irish Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. 13 Financial markets are ringing to the cries of unclean unclean, as the rest of Europe tries to quarantine the Irish economy and prevent it from putting a pox on the whole system. < as lemmas |
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