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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.

Definition 2024


Foulness

Foulness

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English

Proper noun

Foulness

  1. An island off the east coast of Essex where the Thames estuary joins the North Sea.

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See also: Foulness

English

Noun

foulness (countable and uncountable, plural foulnesses)

  1. The state of being foul.

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