unwashenadj.
Now archaic.
= unwashed adj. and n. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > uncleaned > unwashed
unwashenc1000
unwashed?a1390
unbathed1570
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 108 Nim sigelhweorfan þa smalan unwæscene.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 57 On swinke, on un~wasshen weden, on smerte swinginge.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 66 Ful speche is as of lecherie. & of oðer fulðen þet unweschene muðes speoweð oðer hwiles.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 34 For-þy hyȝ not to heuen in haterez to-torne, Ne in þe harlotez hod & handez vnwaschen.
1421–2 T. Hoccleve Min. Poems 116/182 Vnwasshen gold shall wasshe a-way that vice.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Mark vii. 2 Whanne thei hadden seen summe of hise disciplis ete breed with vn~waisschen hoondis.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 256 Loth to ryse,..With unwassh handys reedy to dyneer.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 124 Take vnwasshe loombes wolle.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xv. f. xxjv To eate with vnwesshen hondes, defyleth nott a man.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 18 The Pharise [finds fault] with vnwashen hands.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xvi. lxxvi. 303 Prophane unwashen feet farr hence must be, This holy Ground belongs to Sanctity.
1832 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) II. 42 Whoever has brains so unwashen as to give up the guidance of himself..to any man.
1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 May in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. iv. 16 The town..has a very sordid, grimy, shabby, unswept, unwashen aspect.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 435 So from the lower end they came, ill clad, Houseless, unwashen, yet with faces glad.
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