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NAKEDNESS, n.
1. Want of covering or clothing; nudity; bareness.
2. Want of means of defense.
Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land are ye come. Gen 42.
3. Plainness; openness to view.
To uncover nakedness, in Scripture, is to have incestuous or unlawful commerce with a female.

nakedness appears in definitions for these words:
Bareness Clothe Cover Decency Nakedness Nudity

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