unlaving

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ laving

Adjective[edit]

unlaving (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Not washing; not bathing.
    • 1860, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Historical Romances, volume 13, page 100:
      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.
    • 1885, Bible Flowers and Flower Lore, page 130:
      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.
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