Meaning of antibathing | Babel Free

Definitions

Opposed to bathing.

Examples

“The old man belonged to the antibathing school once so popular in France.”

“There exists significant doubt⟳ about the practicability of an antibathing and antiworship campaign in a country with 800 million practicing Hindus who come⟳ to the river by the tens of millions each year to bathe and worship⟳.”

“Antibathing beliefs common in the eighteenth century—that bathing was dangerous, that dirt protected the skin and health of children—seem to have⟳ become⟳ completely outmoded among the middle and upper classes by the mid-nineteenth century, but are said by various writers to have⟳ persisted for a while among some working-class and rural people.”

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