antibathing

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1. Opposed to bathing.

   The old man belonged to the antibathing school once so popular in France.

   2012, John Ralston Saul, Dark Diversions: A Traveler's Tale, Penguin Canada, →ISBN

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   There exists significant doubt about the practicability of an antibathing and antiworship campaign in a country with 800 million practicing Hindus who come to the river by the tens of millions each year to bathe and worship.

   2014, Liam Leonard, Sya B. Kedzior, Occupy the Earth: Global Environmental Movements, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 106

   Antibathing beliefs common in the eighteenth century—that bathing was dangerous, that dirt protected the skin and health of children—seem to have become completely outmoded among the middle and upper classes by the mid-nineteenth century, but are said by various writers to have persisted for a while among some working-class and rural people.

   2019, Pamela K. Gilbert, Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 153