Antibathing

Quick meaning: Antibathing is an adjective meaning Opposed to bathing.

Meaning

Opposed to bathing.

Example Sentences

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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