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cleanness

Noun

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The state or quality of being clean.

Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. Sandy Koufax

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. Francis Bacon

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. Napoleon Bonaparte

I delay typing as long as possible. When I read a poem in longhand I'm hearing it, when in typescript I'm reading it. A poem can appear finished just because of the cleanness of the typescript. Mark Strand

Formerly the Church with its prelates of old time, was golden in wisdom, silver in cleanness of life, brazen in eloquence, which are three things needful to a preacher. John Peckham

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