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cleanliness

/ˈklɛn.li.nᵻs/ noun B2
  1. The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene. (uncountable)
  2. Ritual purity. (uncountable)

Plural cleanlinesses

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On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 11 · B2
In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that catlike love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 157 · C1

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