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Webster 1913 Edition
Foulness
Foul′ness
,Noun.
[AS.
fūlnes
.] The quality or condition of being foul.
Webster 1828 Edition
Foulness
FOUL'NESS
, n.1.
The quality of being foul or filthy; filthiness; defilement.2.
The quality or state of containing or being covered with any thing extraneous which is noxious or offensive; as the foulness of a cellar, or of a well; the foulness of a musket; the foulness of a ship's bottom.3.
Pollution; impurity.There is not so chaste a nation as this, nor so free from all pollution or foulness.
4.
Hatefulness; atrociousness; as the foulness of a deed.5.
Ugliness; deformity.The foulness of the' infernal form to hide.
6.
Unfairness; dishonesty; want of candor.Piety is opposed to hypocrisy and insincerity, and all falseness or foulness of intentions.
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Noun
foulness (countable and uncountable, plural foulnesses)
- The state of being foul.