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Foulness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The quality of being foul or filthy; filthiness; defilement.

2. The quality or state of containing or being covered with any thing extraneous which is noxious or offensive; as the foulness of a cellar, or of a well; the foulness of a musket; the foulness of a ship's bottom.

3. Pollution; impurity.

4. There is not so chaste a nation as this, nor so free from all pollution or foulness

5. Hatefulness; atrociousness; as the foulness of a deed.

6. Ugliness; deformity.

7. The foulness of the' infernal form to hide.

8. Unfairness; dishonesty; want of candor.

9. Piety is opposed to hypocrisy and insincerity, and all falseness or foulness of intentions.

Foulness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or condition of being foul.