Nakedness
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) The condition of being naked.

2. (n.) The privy parts; the genitals.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
NAKED; NAKEDNESS

na'-ked, na'-ked-nes: "Naked" in the Old Testament represents various derivatives of `ur and `arah chiefly, `arom (adj.) and `erwah (noun); in the New Testament the adjective is gumnos, the noun gumnotes, with verb gumneteuo, in 1 Corinthians 4:11. In Exodus 32:25 2 Chronicles 28:19, the King James Version adds para`, "break loose," "cast away restraint." Both the Greek and Hebrew forms mean "without clothing," but in both languages they, are used frequently in the sense of "lightly clad" or, simply, "without an outer garment." So, probably, is the meaning in John 21:7 -Peter was wearing only the chiton (see DRESS); and so perhaps in Mark 14:51, 52 and Micah 1:8. In Isaiah 20:2-4, however, the meaning is literally (for the "three years" of Isaiah 20:3 see the commentaries). So in Genesis 2:25; Genesis 3:7, where the act of sin is immediately followed by the sense of shame (see Delitzsch, Biblical Psychology, and Gunkel, at the place). A very common use of "naked" is also "without proper clothing" (Job 22:6 1 Corinthians 4:11, etc.), whence, of course, the expression "clothe naked." "Nakedness," in addition, is used as an euphemism in 1 Samuel 20:30. A slightly different euphemistic usage is that of Leviticus 18:19, which in Ezekiel 16:36, 37 is played off against the literal sense (compare Ezekiel 22:10; Ezekiel 23:18, 29). The point of Genesis 9:22, 23 is a little hard to grasp, but apparently there is here again an euphemism-this time for a particularly horrible act (see the commentaries and compare Habakkuk 2:15). Possibly some of these euphemisms are due to the Massoretes (see TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT). The Jews objected vigorously to exposure of the body (even athletes insisting on a loin-cloth (compare 2 Maccabees 4:12, 13)), and compulsory nudity was the extreme of shame and humiliation (Isaiah 20:2-4 Lamentations 1:8 Hosea 2:3 Nahum 3:5, etc.). The relation of this attitude to Israel's high sexual morality needs no explanation.

Buroton Scott Easton

Greek
1132. gumnotes -- nakedness
... nakedness. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: gumnotes Phonetic Spelling:
(goom-not'-ace) Short Definition: nakedness Definition: nakedness. ...
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808. aschemosune -- unseemliness
... Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aschemosune Phonetic Spelling: (as-kay-mos-oo'-nay)
Short Definition: unseemliness, shame, nakedness Definition: unseemly ...
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Strong's Hebrew
4589. maor -- nakedness, pudendum
... 4588, 4589. maor. 4590 . nakedness, pudendum. Transliteration: maor Phonetic
Spelling: (maw-ore') Short Definition: nakedness. Word ...
/hebrew/4589.htm - 6k

6172. ervah -- nakedness
... 6171, 6172. ervah. 6173 . nakedness. Transliteration: ervah Phonetic
Spelling: (er-vaw') Short Definition: nakedness. Word Origin ...
/hebrew/6172.htm - 6k

5903. erom -- naked, nakedness
erom or erom. 5902, 5903. erom or erom. 5904 . naked, nakedness. Transliteration:
erom or erom Phonetic Spelling: (ay-rome') Short Definition: naked. ...
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6181. eryah -- nakedness
... 6180, 6181. eryah. 6182 . nakedness. Transliteration: eryah Phonetic
Spelling: (er-yaw') Short Definition: bare. Word Origin from ...
/hebrew/6181.htm - 6k

4626. maar -- a bare or naked place
... Word Origin from arah Definition a bare or naked place NASB Word Usage clear space
(1), Maareh-geba* (1), nakedness (1). nakedness, proportion. ...
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1320. basar -- flesh
... person (1). body, fat, lean fleshed, kin, mankind, nakedness, self, skin.
From basar; flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body ...
/hebrew/1320.htm - 6k

2817. Chasupha -- an Israelite
... Hashupha, Hasupha. Or Chasuphao {khas-oo-faw'}; from chasaph; nakedness; Chasupha,
one of the Nethinim -- Hashupha, Hasupha. see HEBREW chasaph. 2816, 2817. ...
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6188. aral -- to count as foreskin (as uncircumcised)
... Word Origin denominative verb from orlah Definition to count as foreskin (as
uncircumcised) NASB Word Usage count (1), expose your own nakedness (1). ...
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6173. arvah -- dishonor
... dishonor. (Aramaic) corresponding to ervah; nakedness, ie (figuratively) impoverishment --
dishonor. see HEBREW ervah. 6172, 6173. arvah. 6174 . ...
/hebrew/6173.htm - 6k

Library

Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, which they Saw after their ...
... Book XIV. Chapter 17."Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, Which They
Saw After Their Base and Shameful Sin. Justly is shame ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 17 of the nakedness of.htm

The Shame of Nakedness.
... A Treatise against two letters of the pelagians, Chapter 33."The Shame of
Nakedness. This kind of shame"this necessity of blushing ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 33 the shame of nakedness.htm

Of the Essential Meeting with God Without Means in the Nakedness ...
... THE SECOND BOOK CHAPTER LVII. OF THE ESSENTIAL MEETING WITH GOD WITHOUT MEANS IN
THE NAKEDNESS OF OUR NATURE. Now understand and mark this well. ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter lvii of the essential.htm

The New-Birth
... It is not said, they saw their nakedness in paradise, but that though they were
naked, that is, had such bodies as afterwards appeared to be naked, yet they ...
/.../law/the grounds and reasons of christian regeneration/the new-birth.htm

What was Prophetically Prefigured in the Sons of Noah.
... abandoned lives, may without absurdity seem to be figured by Noah's middle son:
for the passion of Christ, which was signified by that man's nakedness, is at ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 2 what was prophetically prefigured.htm

Epistle Lxiv. To Augustine, Bishop of the Angli .
... But we have learnt by experience that progeny cannot ensue from such marriages.
And the sacred law forbids to uncover the nakedness of kindred. ...
/.../the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle lxiv to augustine bishop.htm

How St. Augustine, Being Made a Bishop, Sent to Acquaint Pope ...
... but we have found, by experience, that the offspring of such wedlock cannot grow
up; and the Divine law forbids a man to "uncover the nakedness of his kindred ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xxvii how st augustine.htm

Letter xiv. Dress.
... The immediate discovery of their nakedness, by our first parents, after their
disobedience, is probably intended to show the nakedness and shame which sin has ...
/.../newcomb/a practical directory for young christian females/letter xiv dress.htm

Chapter xlii
... And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed in reference to them, and
he said to them: Spies ye are; to see the nakedness of the land have ye come. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xlii.htm

Of the Manifold Abuse of Speech.
... And immediately upon the fall, guilty Adam frames his tongue to a frivolous excuse,
which was much less able to cover his sin than the fig leaves his nakedness ...
/.../allestree/the government of the tongue/section ii of the manifold.htm

Thesaurus
Nakedness (50 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. NAKED; NAKEDNESS. na ... Buroton Scott Easton.
Multi-Version Concordance Nakedness (50 Occurrences). Romans ...
/n/nakedness.htm - 26k

Dishonor (47 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 18:7 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness
of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness. ...
/d/dishonor.htm - 19k

Uncover (35 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 18:6 "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives,
to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. ... You shall not uncover her nakedness. ...
/u/uncover.htm - 18k

Son's (34 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 18:10 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or
of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own ...
/s/son's.htm - 17k

Dishonored (17 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 20:11 "'The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's
nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be ...
/d/dishonored.htm - 11k

Relations (92 Occurrences)
... unclean. (BBE). Leviticus 18:6 None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth
draw near to uncover nakedness; I 'am' Jehovah. (See NIV). ...
/r/relations.htm - 32k

Daughter's (6 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 18:10 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or
of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own ...
/d/daughter's.htm - 8k

Relative (33 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 18:6 "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives,
to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. (Root in WEB NAS NIV). ...
/r/relative.htm - 16k

Marries (20 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 20:17 "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's
daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a ...
/m/marries.htm - 12k

Shameful (27 Occurrences)
... I counsel you to buy of Me gold refined in the fire that you may become rich, and
white robes to put on, so as to hide your shameful nakedness, and eye-salve ...
/s/shameful.htm - 15k

Resources
What does it mean to uncover nakedness in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Why did Noah curse Ham / Canaan? | GotQuestions.org

Can a Christian be a nudist? What does the Bible say about nudity? | GotQuestions.org

Nakedness: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance
Nakedness (50 Occurrences)

Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 4:11
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
(DBY)

2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 9:23
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 42:9
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Genesis 42:12
He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Exodus 20:26
Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 28:42
You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Leviticus 18:6
"'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:7
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:8
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:9
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:10
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:11
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:12
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:13
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:14
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:15
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:16
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:17
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:18
"'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 18:19
"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 20:11
"'The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 20:17
"'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 20:18
"'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 20:19
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 20:20
If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 20:21
"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 23:14
for Jehovah thy God is walking up and down in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give thine enemies before thee, and thy camp hath been holy, and He doth not see in thee the nakedness of anything, and hath turned back from after thee.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given 'it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house,
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 20:30
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezra 4:14
Now, because that the salt of the palace 'is' our salt, and the nakedness of the king we have no patience to see, therefore we have sent and made known to the king;
(YLT)

Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 57:8
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for apart from me, thou hast uncovered thyself, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and hast made agreement with them; thou lovedst their bed, thou sawest their nakedness.
(DBY RSV NIV)

Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:36
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:37
therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 22:10
In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 23:10
These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 23:18
So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 23:29
and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Micah 1:11
Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won't come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Nahum 3:5
"Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Habakkuk 2:15
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Habakkuk 2:16
You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

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Dishonor (47 Occurrences)

Uncover (35 Occurrences)

Son's (34 Occurrences)

Dishonored (17 Occurrences)

Relations (92 Occurrences)

Daughter's (6 Occurrences)

Relative (33 Occurrences)

Marries (20 Occurrences)

Shameful (27 Occurrences)

Sexual (59 Occurrences)

Mother's (102 Occurrences)

Exposed (39 Occurrences)

Uncovered (78 Occurrences)

Discovered (46 Occurrences)

Sister (113 Occurrences)

Naked (56 Occurrences)

Sister's (7 Occurrences)

Approach (56 Occurrences)

Shem (17 Occurrences)

Whoredoms (34 Occurrences)

Impurity (42 Occurrences)

Theirs (96 Occurrences)

Responsible (242 Occurrences)

Lieth (135 Occurrences)

Prostitution (48 Occurrences)

Backward (39 Occurrences)

Relatives (132 Occurrences)

Bears (62 Occurrences)

Discover (28 Occurrences)

Cover (254 Occurrences)

Iniquity (299 Occurrences)

Lovers (57 Occurrences)

Either (152 Occurrences)

Brother's (46 Occurrences)

Lewdness (68 Occurrences)

Lies (208 Occurrences)

Beareth (108 Occurrences)

Kin (18 Occurrences)

Kinswomen (1 Occurrence)

Kinswoman (4 Occurrences)

Undefended (2 Occurrences)

Upper (99 Occurrences)

Loathed (13 Occurrences)

Weakness (25 Occurrences)

Wife's (21 Occurrences)

Faces (158 Occurrences)

Fornications (14 Occurrences)

Expose (12 Occurrences)

Daughter-in-law (16 Occurrences)

Disclosed (18 Occurrences)

Menstrual (9 Occurrences)

Promiscuity (6 Occurrences)

Backwards (3 Occurrences)

Childless (25 Occurrences)

Assembling (11 Occurrences)

Aunt (3 Occurrences)

Shoulders (38 Occurrences)

Sleeps (20 Occurrences)

Disgrace (73 Occurrences)

Thirst (40 Occurrences)

Father's (251 Occurrences)

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Japheth (12 Occurrences)

Shoulder (72 Occurrences)

Sees (135 Occurrences)

Daughter (320 Occurrences)

Walked (178 Occurrences)

Strip (33 Occurrences)

Covered (325 Occurrences)

Draw (212 Occurrences)

Garment (143 Occurrences)

Wicked (476 Occurrences)

Shame (412 Occurrences)

Taketh (398 Occurrences)

During (182 Occurrences)

Across (172 Occurrences)

Guilt (180 Occurrences)

Bare (250 Occurrences)

Wickedness (232 Occurrences)

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