washen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English wasshen, waschen, ywasshe (past participle of wasshen (“to wash”)), from Old English wasċen, ġewasċen (“washed”, past participle of wasċan (“to wash”)), equivalent to wash + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian waasken (“washed, washen”), West Frisian wosken (“washed, washen”), Dutch gewassen (“washed, washen”), German Low German wusken (“washed, washen”), German gewaschen (“washed, washen”). More at wash.
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Inflected Forms
more washen (comparative)
most washen (superlative)