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unlaving en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + laving.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Not 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:
    • 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: