Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for NA'KED-NESS
NA'KED-NESS, n.
- Want of covering or clothing; nudity; barrenness. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father. – Gen ix.
- Want of means of defense. Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land are ye come. Gen. xlii.
- Plainness; openness to view. Shak. To uncover nakedness, in Scripture, is to have incestuous or unlawful commerce with a female.
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