Washen

"Washen" in a Sentence (5 examples)

I've had my chance of common life, city and town, and the company of ladies with broidery and camisole and washen faces

a. 1653, Hugh Binning, a sermon Are ye made clean and washen from the guilt of your sins?

Her spirit was the spirit of love, forgiving as she hoped to be forgiven,—her sins, which, had it not been said of man, "not one is perfect," we should have looked upon as of no deeper stains than are of the newly washen lambs, gambolling in fresh pastures of innocence.

He becomes washen by washing away evil and wrong states.

Morag put on a second petticoat of exactly the same material and shape, except that its colour was a dull red. Now she would be ready in a minute, thought Kirsty. Morag put on a third petticoat, of a more washen red than the second, but this one would not fix without its safety-pin.

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