unlaving
English
Etymology
un- + laving
Adjective
unlaving (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1860, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Historical Romances (volume 13, page 100)