Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
2. Degree of Subservience

652. Cleanness.

   NOUN:CLEANNESS &c. adj.; purity; cleaning &c. v.; purification, defecation &c. v.; purgation, lustration; abstersion [rare], detersion; aspersion, asperges [R. C. Ch.]; epuration [rare], mundation [obs.], ablution, lavation, colature [obs.]; disinfection &c. v.; drainage, sewerage.
  BATH, bathroom, swimming pool, natatorium, swimming bath, public bath, baths, bathhouse, hot bath [See Furnace]; lavatory; laundry, washhouse.
  CLEANER, washerwoman, laundress, dhobi [India], laundryman, washerman; scavenger, sweeper; mehtar (fem. mehtrani), bhangi [all India]; mud lark [slang]; crossing -, street- sweeper, white wings [local, U. S.]; dustman; sweep.
  brush; broom, besom, vacuum cleaner, carpet sweeper; mop, swab, hose; scraper; rake, shovel; sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter.
  napkin, serviette, cloth, maukin [obs.], malkin [obs.], handkerchief, towel, sudary, sudarium, face cloth, wash cloth; doily or doyley, bib; carving cloth, tablecloth; duster, sponge.
  MAT, doormat, rug, drugget, cover.
  [CLEANSING AGENTS] wash, lotion, detergent, soap, purifier &c. v.; disinfectant; benzene, benzine, benzol, benzolin; bleaching powder, chloride of lime; lye, buck.
  DENTIFRICE, tooth paste, tooth powder; mouth wash.
  CATHARTIC, purgative, aperient, deobstruent, laxative.
   VERB:BE or RENDER CLEAN &c. adj.
  CLEAN, cleanse; mundify [obs.], rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub.
  wash, lave (water) [See Water]; launder, buck; absterge [rare], deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, spurate [rare], despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; percolate, separate, strain, filter, filtrate, drain.
  SIFT, winnow, sieve, bolt, screen, riddle; pick, weed.
  COMB, rake, scrape, rasp; hackle, heckle, card.
  SWEEP, brush, brush up, whisk, broom, vacuum [colloq.].
  rout -, clear -, sweep &c.- out; make a clean sweep of, clean house, spruce up [colloq.].
  DISINFECT, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash.
   ADJECTIVE:CLEAN, cleanly; pure; immaculate; spotless, stainless, taintless, trig [dial.], without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected; sweet, – as a nut.
  NEAT, spruce, tidy, trim, jimp or gimp [Scot. & dial. Eng.], clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned &c. v.; kempt [archaic].
  ABSTERGENT, detergent, depurative, abstersive [rare], cathartic, cleansing, purifying.
   ADVERB:NEATLY &c. adj.; clean as a whistle.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
2. I’ll purge and leave sack and live cleanly.—Shakespeare
3. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.—Bible
4. Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.—Chesterton