unlaving

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adjective

Not washing; not bathing.

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Meanings

adjectiveunlaving (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableNot washing; not bathing.

    The poem concluded, those who took only the cold bath began to undress; they […] withdrew into that graceful and circular building which yet exists, to shame the unlaving posterity of the south.

    1860, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Historical Romances, volume 13, page 100
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    Together with a number of allied plants, the peasants in the Holy Land burn it for exportation still; and the soap used by the unlaving Greeks and Egyptians is nearly all of it imported from Nablus — the ancient Shechem of the Bible — in Palestine.

    1885, Bible Flowers and Flower Lore, page 130

Origin

From un- + laving.

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APA

unlaving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlaving

MLA

“unlaving.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlaving. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unlaving,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlaving.

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